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Scribes and Bureaucrats
Scribes and Bureaucrats Few skills were more important in Egypt than the ability to read and write. No illiterate could hold high office. Knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic made the scribe a person of importance, one who watched while others sweated in the sun. Scribes gave the orders whi
Mortuary Chapels
upply food when the living forgot or were unable to provide. The decoration of these chapels is one of the main sources for information about Ancient Egypt. Scenes of hunting in the deserts, fishing and fowling in the marshes, dancing and singing, children playing and family members enjoying the
Royalty and the Court
his mortuary chapel. An image of Aa-akhti himself, dressed in an unusual long kilt, and surrounded by clear and lively hieroglyphs, can be seen in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids (item 18). Ankh: Third Dynasty, about 2670 BCE. Ankh was a high official who lived in the time of king Djo
Vocabulary
d it carved onto the outside of his tomb, where it can still be seen today. Papyri: Papyrus is a kind of paper made from reeds. In the dry climate of Egypt, it can last for thousands of years. Egyptians wrote on papyrus with brushes dipped in ink. Some temple records from Abusir remain from the
Mummification
. The Sahara would stretch right across from near the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea if not for the Nile River. The Nile has allowed people to live in Egypt and develop a great civilization. The dark rich soil deposited by the annual flood, the Inundation, enabled farmers to grow two crops a year.
Tomb Inscriptions & Curses
ons, with many people, including Harkuf, telling us that they have dug wells and planted trees. A local governor, Henku, from the XIIth Nome of Upper Egypt, tell us that he took care of the people of his district, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, but also, rather surprisingly, that, in time