Tale of Sinuhe

The Tale of Sinuhe is an ancient Egyptian literary work of the Twelfth Dynasty, often regarded as the finest piece of Middle Egyptian literature. It tells of the courtier Sinuhe, who flees to the Levant on hearing of the death of Amenemhat I, prospers there among foreign chiefs and returns home in old age to be pardoned by Senusret I and buried in Egypt. Many copies survive on papyri and ostraca.