Ancient Greek History

Ancient Greek History

I became very interested in Greek history after visiting the display of papyrology. The papyrology collection at the graduate library at the University of Michigan displays some ancient artifacts of the 4th century and even older showing us what life would of been like in those times. In this exhibit there was a wooden tablet with school exercises from Egypt used in the 4th century. The wooden tablet was found in an unknown provenance of Egypt. This extraordinary tablet was used as a part of elementary Greek school exercises. The tablet features the alphabet written out in regular and reverse order, on the reverse side of the tablet it shows syllabary consisting of consonant/vowel combinations. This tablet would have been used in schools in ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...It looks like just an old piece of wood with some squiggles in it but it is much more important than that. This old piece of wood dates back more than 1700 years old. The wood tablet was used in greek schools for young egyptian children in the 4th century to help them learn the alphabet. These strange looking lines and shapes engraved on the wood are an example of the alphabet use in Greek language in the 4th century. It is very interesting to compare our english alphabet and even the current greek alphabet to these engravings on the tablet. I am amazed that we are able to read what was written on these tablets even though they are 1700 years old and a completely different language. These discoveries shown in the exhibition are very valuable in showing how language has changed yet we still use writing now to express our thoughts and learn other thoughts (SPO,

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