The Most Ancient Artifacts of Today’s Jobs

Via AHP and Slate, here’s an incredible set of interviews and photos that pair contemporary workers with the oldest artifacts from their professions: a real estate broker with a property-transfer document from Iraq in 2600 BC, a taxi driver with a set of Neo-Assyrian iron wheels, and a manicurist with an amazing limestone relief from the tomb of “Kau-bau-Ptah, overseer of the palace manicurists.” Her interview segment is particularly great, and I did not know that men in ancient Egypt gave each other manicures. What is the most ancient artifact for a blogger? A super-old bullhorn that everyone is like “God, turn it off”? [SAWorld]