thank you. i was so excited reading it... until i decided to get my hands on the full transcript of it online...

dont get me wrong... i believe that the 10 plagues did happen... after reading the papyrus... i couldn't really identify anything similar to 10 plagues... i mean... yes there was blood mention... but the blood mention in papyrus does not describe the 10 plagues... for example,

On the 2nd sheets:

Indeed, [hearts] are violent, pestilence is throughout the land, blood is everywhere, death is not lacking, and the mummy-cloth speaks even before one comes near it.

Indeed, the river is blood, yet men drink of it. Men shrink from human beings and thirst after water.

my comments: Blood mentioned on the first excerpt was probably about crime that was so terrifying around that time. The second, was indeed somekind of simile. Blood is a simile in it... blood here represents life... thats why people drink it. Next... "Men shrink from human beings and thirst after water" was symbolized oppression to other people... I mean one oppressed people (drain they life) as so we could live.

It was a very interesting... but as to draw conclusion to describe 10 plagues was rather illusion.