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3,150-year-old papyrus reveals the world’s earliest recorded labour strike. New analysis of the Turin Strike Papyrus—a detailed account from 1157 BCE—shows how artisans building the royal tombs at Deir el-Medina staged a coordinated walkout after going 18 days without grain rations. The document reads like an ancient industrial dispute: workers blocking gates, sending written demands to officials, and ultimately winning emergency payments. collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-G…
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Joscelyn Transpiring
Joscelyn Transpiring
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3000 years and we still have to fight for basic labor rights…I’m existentially exhausted 😩
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Karl Fogel
Karl Fogel
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Thank you for sharing this! It's great.

From that page, I got to here, which gives an overview of the events and links to high-resolution images of the manuscript -- not that I can read hieratic script, but still it's nice to get an up-close look at the source, to see how fragile it is and better appreciate the work that goes into interpreting it.


Papyri Museo Egizio

Turin Papyrus Online Platform (TPOP) - A step away from closed archives towards open data
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rojun
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Oh, I thought that was in 400 BC by the plebeians of Rome
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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@rojun @Ada Palmer the whole plebeians thing in Rome was more a new money vs old money thing, nobody expected the actual workers to get access to the positions of power that got opened to plebeians
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