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What happens to Sinuhe in the land of Retenu?

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He got married and raised a family.

Note: Retenu is a former Egyptian name for Syria

Step-by-step explanation:

The Narrative of Sinuhe was perhaps the first historic novel. It recounts a worker in the royal residence who catches a plot to execute the Pharaoh Amenemhet I. Expecting that he would be involved, he ran from Egypt and got comfortable Syria where he raised a family. Nonetheless, he missed Egypt frightfully and didn't wish to be buried abroad.

In the wake of intersection into Syria, Palestine, Sinuhe goes to various nations and afterward settles with a bedouin named Amunenshi, who gives Sinuhe his girl in marriage and land in a spot called Yaa. Sinuhe succeeds and has kids, just as more undertakings, and arrives at the finish of life. He decides then that he needs to re-visit Egypt for entombment. Sinuhe sends a letter to the lord, and the kind Senwosret I invites him back to Egypt with full distinctions.

Fortunately, Pharaoh Sesostris I exonerated him and permitted him to get back.

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