Thursday, January 20, 2011

Chicago's Oriental Institute on the Scribal Art

The amazing craft of writing practiced early on by women and embodied by the icon Seshat in North Africa is explained by Foy Scalf, Ph.D. candidate in Egyptology at the University of Chicago and Head of the Oriental Institute Research Archives

1 comment:

  1. Interesting. I never knew how papyrus was made into parchment.

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