🔁Mario Nawfal:
🇪🇬 1900 YEARS AGO, A KID IN EGYPT WROTE HIS FATHER
“Hey Dad—sent figs and apples.
Labeled the basket so you know it’s from me.
Take care and write back!”
That’s basically what a son in Roman Egypt wrote on papyrus nearly 2,000 years ago.
Simple, sweet—and in Greek, not Egyptian.
Why? Because after Alexander the Great took Egypt in 332 B.C., Greek became the official language for everything: taxes, court, business — even family notes.
Rome took over in 30 B.C., but kept the Greek bureaucracy intact.
So while hieroglyphs screamed pharaohs and gods, your average "I sent you fruit, love you" was penned in Greek cursive.
History isn’t always war and conquest. Sometimes it’s apples and affection, and there’s a lot to learn from that.
Source: @historyinmemes, British Library
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🇪🇬 1900 YEARS AGO, A KID IN EGYPT WROTE HIS FATHER
“Hey Dad—sent figs and apples.
Labeled the basket so you know it’s from me.
Take care and write back!”
That’s basically what a son in Roman Egypt wrote on papyrus nearly 2,000 years ago.
Simple, sweet—and in Greek, not Egyptian.
Why? Because after Alexander the Great took Egypt in 332 B.C., Greek became the official language for everything: taxes, court, business — even family notes.
Rome took over in 30 B.C., but kept the Greek bureaucracy intact.
So while hieroglyphs screamed pharaohs and gods, your average "I sent you fruit, love you" was penned in Greek cursive.
History isn’t always war and conquest. Sometimes it’s apples and affection, and there’s a lot to learn from that.
Source: @historyinmemes, British Library
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