Scribes played a significant role in all periods of ancient Egyptian society. Only men could be scribes. People of upper and lower classes depended on scribes to send messages, record events, register livestock. By the time of the New Kingdom the u
se of scribes had multiplied, and some recorders had specialized duties such as keeping census, measuring grain, and tracking military gains and losses. Scribes used a palette,
papyrus, water cup, and brush holder like those seen at the top of the scribe
hieroglyph.
Lucky for us, scribes wrote on a large stone called the
Rosetta Stone. they wrote in three languages: hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek. It was deciphered by Jean Champollion in 1799.
Please take out your note book and fill in the following vocabulary:
heiroglyphics-
fresco-
scribe-
papyrus-
Rosetta Stone-
The History of the Rosetta Stone
Egyptian heiroglyphics- Student Produced
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