The findings provide greater insight into the lives of scribes in ancient Egypt during the third millennium BCE. The authors ...

"Be A Scribe! Working for a Better Life in Ancient Egypt." The book, which centers around a teenager named Pepi and his father's efforts to secure him a job in the royal court, draws on a 4,000 ...

These written records of ancient Egypt give us information about the beginning of history. This is in contrast to societies that had no written record, such as the people who built Stonehenge ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...