Archaeologists Unearth More Than 40,000 Pieces of Pottery That Ancient Egyptians Used Like Scrap Paper The ostraca, some dating back to the time just before Cleopatra, were discovered within the ancient ruins of Athribis

Archaeologists Unearth More Than 40,000 Pieces of Pottery That Ancient Egyptians Used Like Scrap Paper
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Over 43,000 inscribed pot sherds in Upper Egypt site A joint archaeological mission has documented the world’s most extensive find of inscribed pottery sherds at the site of Athribis.

43,000 #ostraca and a thousand years of daily life at Athribis, Upper #Egypt, #archaeology, #paleography, #epigraphy

Invisible East Digital Corpus Invisible East is a research programme on the 8th-13th century Islamicate world in Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

These 10 ostraca appear, along with over 50 new documents written in both New Persian and Middle Persian now launched on the Invisible East Digital Corpus (www.invisible-east.org)

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Over 1,000 years ago, people in Iran were doing something very similar — except instead of scrap paper, they used old broken shards of pottery. 🍶 These fragments are called #ostraca, and they were the Post-it notes of the ancient world.

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Archaeologists uncovered over 18,000 #ostraca, the remains of jars or vessels used as writing materials, including receipts, school texts, trade information and lists of names offering a glimpse at life in ancient...