= Rhind mathematical papyrus
{c}
{title2=c. 1650 BCE}
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10057
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA10058
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/The_Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus%2C_Volume_I.pdf
The manuscript is held as EA10057 and EA10058. Problem 50 gives a worked circular-field area rule. The linked 1927 edition provides transcription and mathematical commentary; modern symbolic reconstructions must be identified as such.
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