When I was in undergrad at the University of Toronto, I seriously contemplated a minor in Egyptology (to go with my Zoology specialist) because I had always suspected that the hieroglyphic messages were much more mundane than they had led us to believe!
Yeah, for us historians some of the most interesting texts are things like shopping lists and birthday party invitations.
Similarly, as a writer-editor, I get nothing from what you have had published but everything from how you construct your emails and talk to people on LinkedIn or Facebook. Life unedited, as it were. 😀
Tabula Candida 
More of a Kenneth Branagh man, myself.
When I was in undergrad at the University of Toronto, I seriously contemplated a minor in Egyptology (to go with my Zoology specialist) because I had always suspected that the hieroglyphic messages were much more mundane than they had led us to believe!
Yeah, for us historians some of the most interesting texts are things like shopping lists and birthday party invitations.
Similarly, as a writer-editor, I get nothing from what you have had published but everything from how you construct your emails and talk to people on LinkedIn or Facebook. Life unedited, as it were. 😀