Ancient Egyptian scribes held high-status jobs, making up some of the 1% of Egyptians who could read and write at that time. But the scribes suffered for it: New research published in Scientific ...

More information: Petra Brukner Havelková, Ancient Egyptian scribes and specific skeletal occupational risk markers (Abusir, ...

From the plight of ancient Egyptian scribes to the identities of ancient Maya sacrifices, 2024 brought a rich medley of insights into human history.

The graphic art of ancient Egypt is very familiar to us since it was so widely used We find extraordinary graphic representations on sarcophagi papyrus scrolls the walls of tombs and other ...

He was the scribe for the other gods and the ancient Egyptians believed that he invented hieroglyphs. Osiris was the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He has a pharaoh’s beard and his ...

He was the scribe for the other gods and the ancient Egyptians believed that he invented hieroglyphs. Osiris was the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He has a pharaoh’s beard and his ...

Repetitive tasks carried out by ancient Egyptian scribes—high-status men with the ability to write who performed administrative tasks—and the positions they sat in while working may have led ...

Researchers say Artificial Intelligence (AI) has for the first time shown that two scribes wrote part of the mysterious ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. Tests were carried out on the longest text ...