So, for our civilization project over in the Greece Group, we got together and discussed how we wanted to do our artifact and Rosetta thing. Our first thought was that the Greeks, like many other ancient cultures in the Mediterranean area, frequently wrote on papyrus. It seemed easy enough, it is a simple and common medium, but when we tried to get our hands on papyrus, we immediately started running into difficulties. First, we tried online, but the fastest reliable shipment method we could find would have taken a full four days (by which time we needed to be translating our new artifact), so we searched to see if there were any local stores that might have it, to no avail. We considered stone, which was a popular medium at certain Greek time periods, but discarded that idea because of the difficulty of writing into that medium.
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| Our Rosetta thing and our received artifact, displayed against The Freschetta box we used to preserve the "Stone" |
