This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for worker absence include "embalming brother", "brewing beer" and "bitten by scorpion"

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Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’, ‘stung by a scorpion’, and ‘embalming brother’! From Deir el-Medina worker’s village. Written in Hieratic script.

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Iraq - stole my heart

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A stone tablet bearing 46 lines of incised Etruscan text. A language isolate unrelated to any modern European language family from which the roman developed their alphabet. It is thought to be a remnant of the indigenous languages of Europe from before the great steppe migrations.

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The van inscription of king Xerxes the 1st, written on a cliff 70 feet off the ground in trilingual text (old Persian/Elamite and Babylonian).

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My trip to Armenia 🇦🇲

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Long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard

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The homework doodles of a seven-year-old who lived in the 13th century shows that kids haven't changed that much

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Gold Tablet from Assyria, c.1243-1207 BCE: this little tablet was buried in the foundations of an ancient temple, and it's covered in cuneiform inscriptions that honor King Tukulti-Ninurta I and describe the construction of the temple

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About 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim drew himself as a warrior on horseback defeating an enemy, likely while avoiding schoolwork. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/onfims-doodle-a-13th-century-kids-self-portrait-on-horseback-slaying-an-enemy

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Possibly the world’s first customer service complaint, nearly 4,000 years old.

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The oldest known Cyrillic inscription, dating back to 921. Located near Krepcha, Northeastern Bulgaria.

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Harvard Bought This Stained Copy of the Magna Carta for $27.50. It Turned Out to Be an Original | Issued by Edward I in 1300, this version of the historic text is one of only seven known surviving copies. It’s been hiding in plain sight in Harvard Law School’s library since 1946