00:00You know the hieroglyphics of Egypt, majestic, full of mystery and power.
00:06But did you know they also used them like that?
00:09In broken pieces of pottery, called ostraca.
00:13Not only on temple or tomb walls, they were their scrap paper.
00:17Quick notes, shopping lists, accounts, even drawings and cartoons.
00:23They are like windows into your everyday world, your fleeting thoughts, your daily scribbles.
00:29A surprisingly human side of a monumental civilization.
00:34Could you imagine the Egyptians making shopping lists on ceramics?
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