Actually, I don’t think the ancient Egyptians used bookmarks because they didn’t have books. They kept written works on scrolls.
This is kept in a plastic sheath because it’s painted on papyrus, and it’s very thin and delicate. I can’t remember where I got it, but it wasn’t Egypt. So most likely some museum.
Book: A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
Alex Good 
Haha you said plastic sheath. So where did you loot this from, professor Good, the cursed tomb of tootenkamoon?
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It’s interesting that sheath never has the meaning over here that it does in more benighted lands where the sun rarely rises.
It wasn’t a tomb but the ancient site of an Egyptian KFC, as you can tell from the activity depicted.
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I don’t get what’s wrong with sheaths. Never mind I like the bookmark, good combo with the book.
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Eddie has a dirty mind. It’s a neat bookmark!
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They used paperclips for scrolls. Just clip where you stopped reading and come back the next day to Amenutep VIII’s latest mummy thriller…
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Professor Bookstodge! I didn’t know you were an Egyptologist as well. Do you have a monocle?
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I have 3 monocles! One for each eye and then an extra one to read the extra small print on cereal boxes.
Or hyroglyph’s. But cereal boxes are less dangerous over all…
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I have 3-D glasses for cereal boxes. But they don’t help with the French.
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That’s because you have to wear them backwards to translate the french. Or just write “Le 3d” on the side of the glasses. That works too.
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Who says you can’t learn stuff from the Internetz? I’m getting smarter every day.
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Le I am le speaking Le Frenchy le right now!
Tada!
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I am now 3-D-lingual!
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Ando ifo youo speako in Spanisho, theno someo museumo willow hire youo ino noo timeo!
You’ll be making the talk show circuit in no time. Riches and fame lie at your feet.
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As long as I’m not on that talk show with the devil breaking loose.
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You take your chances! 😀
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I imagine Alex being very much like the guy that comes on a talks about Charles Laughton in that movie!
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I have some stories to tell about Chuck, it’s true.
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I can see how you two might get along.
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