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Extracts from the Sallier Papyrus: Kheta

When the archers and the horsemen came in, one after the other, from their camps toward the evening hour, they found the whole region in which they were marching covered with dead bodies bathed in their blood-all good warriors of Kheta, valorous champions of their prince. When daylight illuminated the land of Atesh, the foot could not find place, so numerous were the dead. Then, the army went up to glorify the names of the king: "Good and mighty man of war, with the heart that cannot be shaken, thou dost the work of thine archers and of thy mounted men! Son of the god Toum, fashioned from his own substance, thou hast wiped out the land of Kheta with thy victorious falchion! It is thou, oh good warrior! who art the lord of ar nies. There is no king like to thee who does battle for his soldiers on the day of conflict. It is thou, oh king of the great heart! who art the foremost in the strife; it is thou who art the greatest of the brave, before thine army, and in the presence of the whole world risen up against thee. It is thou who dost reign over Egypt and chastise the barbarian races. the land of Kheta are thine forever."