What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids (2015)

Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by HillaryBriss on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:21PM (#15367715)

>Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated in the building of the Great Pyramid, the tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu, the first and largest of the three colossal pyramids at Giza ... the entries provide a never-before-seen snapshot of the ancients putting finishing touches on the Great Pyramid.

really amazing to learn that such documentation survives to this day. just amazing.

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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by fhood on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:57PM (#15368095)

It's a good thing that Egypt is so dry.

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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by pjmlp on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:31PM (#15368380)

Sadly we cannot say the same about our current digital knowledge.

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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by autokad on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:40PM (#15368986)

I'm sure they'll dig up quite a few AOL disks a couple thousand years from now

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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by tpeo on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:07PM (#15369216)

Funny thing how the invention of plastics might reverse the pattern of future artifacts. Valuable/costly artifacts are currently over-presented, since they were made either of stone or metal, as opposed to mud and wood.

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Re:What the World's Oldest Papyrus Can Tell Us About the Gre... by WalterBright on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:17PM (#15369719)

There's still a blizzard of paper being printed.

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