The Story of Aḥiqar, also known as the Words of Aḥiqar, is a story first attested in Imperial Aramaic from the fifth century BCE on papyri from Egypt, that circulated widely in the Middle and Near East. It has been characterized as one of the earliest 'international books' of world literature. Some of the sayings are similar to parts of the Biblical Book of Proverbs.
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