Curators on Camera: A 2,000-year-old homework book
Channel: British Library
Date: 2019-04-24

'My children, in school, are still copying text and samples, exactly what happened about 2,000 years ago in Egypt'

Curator Peter Toth shows us one school-child’s valiant efforts at handwriting in ancient Greek. Do you remember having to copy out lines of letters at school? Find out more about this 2,000-year-old homework book on our History of Writing website: https://www.bl.uk/history-of-writing/articles/a-2000-year-old-homework-book

This wax tablet is on display in our Writing: Making Your Mark exhibition which explores the evolution of writing from hieroglyphs to emojis. Book tickets: https://www.bl.uk/writing

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