Soldiers apparently have had similar sentiments throughout history, what a graduate student has deciphered from a 1,800-year old Egyptian letter.
The letter, written mostly in ancient Greek, was sent by Aurelius Polion, a military recruit serving in a Roman legion in Europe, to his family, The Independent reported.
Grant Adamson, of Rice University in the United States, deciphered the letter assigned to him during a 2011 summer institute in Utah.
The letter was discovered in 1899 by an expedition team in the ancient Egyptian city of Tebtunis. Since then, the document remained beyond understanding.
And even now, some of the letter's contents remain uncertain and impossible to reconstruct, UK-based The Independent reported.
“I pray that you are in good health night and day, and I always make obeisance before all the gods on your behalf,” the deciphered letter read.
“I do not cease writing to you, however you do not have me in mind. Yet, I do my part writing to you always and do not cease bearing you (in mind) and having you in my heart.”
However, you never wrote to me concerning your health, how you are doing. I am worried about you because although you received letters from me often, you never wrote back to me so that I may know how you (are),”
