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pretty sure there are a few 2000 year old texts that people are still reading today
by b0rtb0rt 8mo ago
pretty sure there are a few 2000 year old texts that people are still reading today
- bubblewand 8mo agoPretty sure the oldest stuff I've read was around 4,500 years old (in translation, but still). Volume I of Lichtheim's Ancient Egyptian Literature. There are a couple incomplete tales in that 3-volume work and I really wish they'd had a more stable storage medium, because now I'm stuck with accidental millennia-old cliffhangers.
- bossyTeacher 8mo agoThe Bible doesn't count
- anthk 8mo agoSome Chinese and Greek tales are still universal to understand. Ditto with some Sumerian legends.