The article of the Map of the Book of the Faiyum

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1 Tourism Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt

2 Tourism Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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The Book of the Faiyum is a map of the Faiyum region contains pictorial and textual content was made in a very skillful way. This book is a map-like depiction of the Faiyum in a religious way which represents the cosmography and the geography of ancient Egypt, in which many geographic features are depicted all of them are represented by the same sequence of reality because they were there at the time of the composition of this book. The book is one of the last hieroglyphic mythological texts. All of the papyri of this book date back to the Graeco–Roman Period in Egypt but the oldest source of the book of the Faiyum was found on the wooden sarcophagus of Ankhrui dates back of the 30th Dynasty which contains three hieroglyphic vignettes on its inner face like those drawn in the book of the Faiyum. The contents of the Book of the Faiyum represent traditional Egyptian religious ideas with little influence from the Graeco-Roman era as the book contains many myths and gods relating directly to the ancient Egyptian religion which date back to the earlier times of ancient Egyptian history and there are many places are mentioned in the text of this book date back to Ptolemaic Period because the book was collected and arranged most probably in the house of life during the Ptolemaic Period while it was spread during the Roman Period but with the ancient Egyptian religious influence.

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