Ipuwer Papyrus
Also called Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage, the Ipuwer Papyrus is ancient document dated to no earlier than the 12th dynasty of Egypt. The author is an Egyptian who uses several phrases that closely resemble the Exodus account. He laments about the world seeming to have been “turned upside-down” a describes women who did not own a single box now has furniture, a girl who looked at her face in the water now owns a mirror, and the once-rich man is now in rags. This is followed by a description of disorder in Egypt saying the river turns to blood, there is darkness, all is ruin, wailing throughout the land, no shortage of the dead, the slave taking what he finds, as well as gold and precious stones strung around the necks of female slave as they left Egypt. This document also mentions pyramid builders in the present tense, while the building of pyramids ended at the close of the 13th dynasty.
