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Any modern child fretting about how they messed up their homework can be reassured – the ancient Egyptians could be just as hopeless.

“It is a bit of a disaster … it’s not good,” said curator Adrian Edwards of the 2,000-year-old Greek homework of an Egyptian child, on display at the British Library.