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Foreign Words in Egyptian Magic Spells: Are They Minoan?

Summary by The Archaeologist
Illustration by Dimosthenis Vasiloudis By Dimosthenis Vasiloudis Sacred Sounds or Foreign Tongues? The Mystery of the Keftiu Incantations in Egyptian medical papyri: A Linguistic and Historical Assessment of Their Minoan IdentityTwo brief magical incantations—(1) “sente kepe wej’ ejmentere kekere” and (2) “ebeksetesebeseje hmkt repej pewer’ smk”—appear in New Kingdom Egyptian medical papyri and are explicitly noted to be written in the “language…
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The Archaeologist broke the news in on Friday, May 23, 2025.
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