Papyrus Stories: Ancient Lives from the Ancient Past
Papyrus Stories: Ancient Lives from the Ancient Past
From the ancient Mediterranean world survive thousands upon thousands of
ancient texts, and Papyrus Stories aims to relive tales of daily life
preserved for us today. While papyrus is perhaps the best-known of the
mediums upon which texts were written, people also wrote on sherds of
pottery and stone, on wood, on leather, on parchment, on paper. They
incised and painted their writing on walls and on stelae, and left their
marks as graffiti. Each Papyrus Stories post will focus on an
individual document from Egypt and the Near East, from the age of the
pyramids to the emergence of Islam.
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