File:Rhind Mathematical Papyrus.jpg
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus : detail (recto, left part of the first section British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, EA10057)
Date
during 1650 b.C. (sources: sapere.it (archivo), britannica.com (archive - Encyclopædia Britannica))
Source
Ahmes (scribe), http://www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus.jpg (https://www.britishmuseum.org/, British Museum)
Author
unknown (c. 2000 B.C)
Acquired by the Scottish lawyer A.H. Rhind during his sojourn in Thebes in the 1850s. length: 295.5 cm, width: 32 cm (whole section EA10057)
A second section is kept in the British Museum (EA 10058 length: 199.5 cm, same width)
Fragments of a small intermediate section (18 cm length) are kept in the Brooklyn Museum. It dates to the reign of the Hyksos kings Apepi or Apophis and possibly his successor Khamudi.Licensing
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