Boing Boing – Ancient Egyptian tablet is an “attendance sheet” listing excuses for missing work

A 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian tablet, held by the British Museum, was a work supervisor’s attendance sheet used to register the reasons workers were absent. The article in My Modern Met is here.

“Other employees were absent due to their own illnesses.

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