Oh yeah? You youngsters have it easy, you don't know what it means to have to throw away the whole tablet and start again when your chisel slips.
The Pharaoh was not amused, I'll tell you that much.
The Pharaoh was not amused, I'll tell you that much.
Many tablets even could be recycled after the pharaoh read them (could pharaohs even read?). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_tablet: “Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. Other tablets, once written, were either deliberately fired in hot kilns, or inadvertently fired when buildings were burnt down by accident or during conflict, making them hard and durable”
<grabs the top of your head>
Old Man Withers!?