The Immortality of Writers is an Ancient Egyptian wisdom text likely to have been used as an instructional work in schools.
It is recorded on the verso side of the Chester Beatty IV papyrus (BM 10684) held in the British Museum.
[citation needed] The scribe advises that writings of authors provide a more sure immortality than fine tombs.
Instruction are their tombs, the reed pen their child, the stone surface their wife..... Man decays, his corpse is dust.
Better is a book than a well built house...[1]The oratorical style of its writing is evidenced by the metrical structure of the text.