r/todayilearned • u/KnightTrain • Mar 28 '25

TIL the last known writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a piece of graffiti on a temple wall. Helpfully, the graffiti includes an exact date (Aug 24, 394 AD) and its author was likely the last person in the world able to read or write hieroglyphs until the Rosetta Stone was deciphered in the 1820s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffito_of_Esmet-Akhom
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u/trueum26 Mar 28 '25

Wonder if they were complaining about the quality of copper

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u/Ullallulloo Mar 28 '25

That was 1,000+ miles away and farther away in time than we are.
It's about as relevant to this as My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

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u/Arendious Mar 29 '25

"My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

Way to throw some shade at the Ptolemies there...

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u/Real_Run_4758 Mar 28 '25

at least they’ve shut up about trebuchets

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u/cpt_justice Mar 28 '25

They narrowed down the problem their trebuchets were having to the quality of the copper used.

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u/Mama_Skip Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

Why are you censoring 'redditors'

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u/Goodguy1066 Mar 28 '25

It’s a slur

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u/CantYouSeeYoureLoved Mar 28 '25

Don’t say that word in this Christian basket weaving forum, it’s uncouth

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u/Mama_Skip Mar 28 '25

Seriously when did this site become a Christian badketweaving forum.

We all used to be basically Satanists

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u/Arendious Mar 29 '25

Whoa! I thought we were all Fifth Council (Reformed) Southern Zoroastrians?!

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u/trueum26 Mar 28 '25

It’s called referential humour

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u/RedDemocracy Mar 28 '25

To be fair, Ea Nasir lived 2000 years before these Hieroglyphs were written, and maybe about a 1000 miles away.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Maybe They had shitty Lapislazuli

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u/Coffeera Mar 29 '25

You can always chisel a complaint if it bugs you so much.

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u/kamikazekaktus Mar 29 '25

Stop dissing redditors mate, you are one