Should we write more letters? Online chat is instantaneous, so we rarely think of sending a message by post. But some say we could be creating a meaningful and lasting record.
Writers lament the lost art of letter writing
Glossary
Ur - An important city state in ancient Mesopotamia, located in modern Iraq.
Cuneiform - A writing system used to write several languages in the ancient Middle East.
Epistles - Letters. In the New Testament, some books are epistles from apostles.
Virginia Woolf - An English novelist (1882 - 1941) whose best-known books include Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse.
Artefacts - Items made by humans, especially ones of historical interest.
Seneca - A Roman philosopher.