Ancient Egyptian literature was written in the Egyptian language from Ancient

Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. Along with Sumerian literature, it is
considered the world's earliest literature. Writing in Ancient Egypt (sample pictured) first
appeared in the late 4th millennium BC. By the Old Kingdom, literary works included funerary
texts, epistles and letters, religious hymns and poems, and
commemorative autobiographical texts. Middle Egyptian, the spoken language of the Middle
Kingdom, became a classical language preserving a narrative Egyptian literature during the New
Kingdom, when Late Egyptian first appeared in writing. Scribes of the New
Kingdom canonized and copied many literary texts written in Middle Egyptian, which remained
the language used for oral readings of sacred hieroglyphic texts. Ancient Egyptian literature has
been preserved on papyrus scrolls and packets, limestone and ceramic ostraca, wooden writing
boards, monumental stone edifices, and coffins. (Full article...)