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'Sorry, I can't help build the pyramids today...I've been bitten'
Cambridge News
|October 08, 2025
AN exhibition has revealed Ancient Egyptian sick notes and work invoices, including one man who stayed at home because he had been bitten.
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The 'Made in Ancient Egypt' exhibition, at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, shows how those people living in ancient times were not so different to us.
One ostracon - a piece of pottery using for writing - details a list of absences and days when no one worked in the Valley of the Kings in Ancient Thebes.
This story is from the October 08, 2025 edition of Cambridge News.
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