The papyrus Leopold II is the upper part of a document, the lower part of which (the Papyrus Amherst VII), currently kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, had already been known as early as 1874. In 1935, Jean Capart found the papyrus in Brussels among some other antiquities that King Leopold II had brought back from one of his trips to Egypt. The unique document reports on the investigations by the Egyptian authorities at the time of Ramses IX (about 1100 B.C.) concerning thefts committed in the royal necropolis of Thebes. The texts, which are written in four long columns of 19 lines each, are written in a neat hieratic script.