An over 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet has exposed some of the gobsmacking reasons given by workers when they were absent from work. Turns out we’re not the only ones who skive off work, but the ...

Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon proved to be the key to deciphering the long-lost language of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inscribed in 196 B.C.E., the so ...