Ibn Wahshiyya

Ibn Wahshiyya (also Ibn Wahshiyah) (fl. 9th century/10th century) was a Nabataean and Assyrian writer, alchemist, agriculturalist, Egyptologist and historian born at Qusayn near Kufa in Iraq. He was known in early modern Europe as Ahmad Bin Abubekr Bin Wahishih. Ibn Wahshiyya was one of the first historians to be able to at least partly decipher what was written in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, by relating them to the contemporary Coptic language A reference to Ibn Wahshiyya is made in the archaeological mystery Labyrinth by Kate Mosse.

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