Wax Poetic? You KNOW They Read and Wrote in Pompeii!

Let me just hold my stylus here while I think about that.

This fresco from the 1st century depicts a holding both wax tablets and a stylus. Maybe it’s just me, but I see echoes of today’s tablets and styluses here. Full circle, people. (Kinda.)

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