Looking at old books does not seem like a fun activity that anyone would want to do. At least not something that I would think I’d like to do in my free time. However, as many people already mentioned, seeing the Egyptian scroll on Tuesday was really neat. It was so hard to wrap my mind around that fact that the very scroll had been around at the time of Egyptian gods like Osiris and Isis. Learning about these figures in middle school and high school history classes, they seemed like such abstract creatures, so far away from us now. But being only inches away from a scroll that these god like figures had also been around was really powerful. Also, the fact that this piece was in such good condition after all those years was mind blowing. I have newspaper clippings from high school that are already yellowing and becoming fragile; and those are only a few years old. Although many years ago there may not have been much technology, but the quality of the pieces made seems to be on a higher scale than they are now. Of course technology is not a bad thing, but has the quality of things gone down with the existence of so many new tools and shortcuts? Will our thin paper be able to last as long as their papyrus, parchment, stone, and clay? Will we be forgotten because of our superior technology? (that would be quite ironic)