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On this day in antiquity: the final known text in Egyptian hieroglyphs is written down. These two texts from Roman Egypt, written in hieroglyphs and Demotic on the Nile island of Philae, are short, but they nonetheless give us their author's name and their date of creation: August 24th 394 AD.

If I am not mistaken, hieroglyphs are still the writing system with the longest continuous history in writing. Please don't retreat to Instagram exclusively. I guess there are still a few people around who refuse to debase themselves to using moving-images-based social media.

No fear, professor! I'm not going anywhere. While I recognise the way the online winds blow, it's not a medium I at all feel comfortable in. The first point has interested me greatly: if we consider 'our' alphabet as separate, then I reckon, as it approaches 4,000 years old, it's taken the crown?

What’s the scope of "our“ here, with regards to taking *the* crown? Asking for Ukrainian and Greek friends.