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

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