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Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show in Cambridge

Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show in Cambridge

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art A close-up of a drawing of a stoneworker finishing a granite statue of a king. He is in profile and has a naked torso with his right up raised up holding a round tool or stone and reaching towards the top of the headdress of the statue he is working. From a painting in the tomb of Rekhmire, Qurna, Egypt, 1479 to 1425BC.The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Images of ancient Egyptian workers (above) survive, as do many written documents which give insight into their lives – and illnesses

About 3,500 years ago, a craftsman called Panebu was recorded as off work – because…

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