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Wednesday, 5 July 2017

Old-school TripAdvisor discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs

Old-school TripAdvisor discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs: Polish archaeologists have found messages tourists carved into the walls of tombs at the Valley of the Kings around 2,000 years ago, according to the Daily Mail, suggesting that people’s love of writing reviews predates the Internet by a few centuries. While most see the messages as graffiti that has vandalized the historic site, Adam Lukaszewicz from the University of Warsaw actually sees great added value in the ancient scribbles, particularly as they serve as a record of who visited the tombs in ancient times, The Times reports. “By systematically recording the inscriptions, Professor Lukaszewicz has found that some of the visitors were philosophers from the Ancient Greek schools, including cynics and followers of Plato,” as well as people at the top of the social hierarchy.

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