I don’t think people understand how much time is involved.
Cleopatra, for example, lived closer to today than the construction of the pyramids.
She was also Greek.
Language and writing drift. My kids are among the few of their generation who can write in cursive.
Too few people could read and write so it was easy to forget a written language. Cleopatra could read and write both Greek and Egyptian—a very bright woman. We even have her signature on a document, giving tax relief for some merchant. One of many things she signed, I am sure.
At a bank, I watched a young lady turning regular hand-printing into art...!
I admit I barely write anything on paper and haven’t much in years.
At most I scribble a signature of some kind. A little better than the old style big “X” people did way back before.
I’m left-handed and no could read my writing on a good day ever it seemed.