Papyrus on which segments of the Book of the Dead are written, together with drawings – here, Osiris overseeing the crucial act of weighing the heart of the deceased. Source – Wikipedia
Would be interesting to consider a similar conference – however, one that features the occurrence of papyri and their possible impact on both culture and politics. Here, I would focus on the Nile Valley and up into the Ptolemaic period.
Background you may want to check out –
The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present): Workshop
Ertegun House, University of Oxford, 4 – 5 December 2014
The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present) is a two-day interdisciplinary workshop organised by doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in conjunction with the English Faculty’s Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, the Oxford Centre for Global History and the University of Oxford’s Ertegun Graduate Programme in the Humanities, to be held on the 4th and 5th of December 2014 at Ertegun House, Oxford.
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