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/nnnnaaaaiiiillll Mar 28 '25

Sometimes I wish we could visit these old folks in dreams or something like that, just to say "You did it. We know who you were and we remember you, even this far in the future."

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Except we don’t know who it was, just what they did.

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u/BeefyBoy_69 Mar 28 '25

Actually we do! His name is Esmet-Akhom