An unprecedented analysis of inscriptions on over 42,000 shards of pottery from an ancient Egyptian archaeological site has provided fresh insights into the lives of ordinary people two thousand years ago.
More than 43,000 potsherds – ceramic fragments also known as ostraca – have so far been recovered from the Upper Egypt archaeological site of Athribis since 2005, with 42,000 of them unearthed in the past eight years alone.
