Imagine what the stuff of everyday life — personal letters, the deed of a house, a shop owner’s inventory records — might look like in medieval times. Since the late 1990s, historian Marina Rustow has immersed herself in a unique cache of such documents hidden away for centuries in an Egyptian synagogue. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/02/11/fragile-fragments-marina-rustow-unpacks-daily-life-medieval-egypt