| ▲ | alexpotato 3 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There is a great quote: "The Egyptians built using stone but wrote day to day on papyrus. The Sumerians built with mud and wrote on clay tablets. This is why we have lots of Egyptians buildings but not much of their writing and the opposite with the Sumerians." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | literalAardvark 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Future archaeologists will be so confused when they find only glass and (maybe, if the wildlife doesn't finish eating it by then) plastic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> This is why we have lots of Egyptians buildings but not much of their writing and the opposite with the Sumerians. Well, we have a lot of Mesopotamian writing. Nothing like the amount they wrote, but more than we want to deal with. Most of their writing sank into the water table and dissolved, like the buildings. Papyrus isn't a reason for any lack of Egyptian writing; just like everything else, papyrus won't rot in Egypt because of the lack of water. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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