Travel was a crucial element of ancient Egyptian culture.  Traveling activity attested for various professions, in the majority of cases, a journey was undertaken within the scope of the traveler's work and on behalf of the pharaoh. Ancient Egyptian literary stories provide information about voyages, expeditions, and encounters with other peoples and places. Some of these are tales of miraculous events when humans encounter supernatural powers, but others maybe partly based on accounts of real events. Therefore, literary sources provide both factual and fantastic descriptions of the foreign locations to which Egyptians traveled. The actuality privileged relationship between foreign travel and the production of literary fiction.