Archeologists discovered 18,000 pottery fragments used as writing materials in ancient Egypt. The fragments were used to write shopping lists, receipts, and lines students wrote as a punishment. The ...

Archeologists have discovered over 18,000 broken pieces of ceramics called "ostraca" that served as writing materials in ancient Egypt. The inscriptions on the shreds include lists of names, ...

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...