Uploaded June 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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The ancient world was incredibly diverse, and many different languages were spoken. To learn more about ancient languages, CC’s Anastasia visited the URE Museum at the University of Reading to talk to Dr Rachel Mairs (reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/r-mairs.aspx) about her work on the Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions project based at Oxford University (csad.ox.ac.uk/CPI/).
Watch our interview to learn more about the different languages spoken in the streets of an ancient Egyptian city!