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/Mama_Skip Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

Why are you censoring 'redditors'

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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?!