produced a sarcastic account of the misadventures of a tourist in Canaan, the object of which was to ridicule the style and matter of another writer.
Poetry--heroic, lyrical, and religious--flourished, and a sort of Egyptian Iliad was constructed by the poet Pentaur out of a deed of personal prowess on the part of Ramses II.

during the war with the Hittites.
Reference has already been made to the work on mathematics that was composed when the Hyksos were ruling Egypt.

A century or two later a work on medicine was written, a copy of which is known as the Ebers Papyrus.

It shows that medicine has not advanced very rapidly since the age of the Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty.

Diseases were already carefully diagnosed and treated, much as they are to-day.