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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in reply to Ada Palmer • • •Karl Fogel
in reply to Ada Palmer • • •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.
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