The Life of Scribes and Scribal Schools in Ancient Egypt

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In this video we take a look at the interesting life of scribes, the all important institution of scribal schools and why governments and society in ancient Egypt couldn't function without them.
Contents:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Earliest Scribes
04:20 First Scribal Schools
06:52 Life of a Scribe and Curriculum
11:00 Importance of Scribes
13:21 Thank You and Patrons
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It is insane how detailed pictures of everyday life those documents can offer, 4000 years later. Great video!

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Thanks, glad you liked it! Hope to do more videos focusing on daily life and maybe will read some of the documents from Egypt and Mesopotamia. Thanks for watching and more on the way!

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Well explained, great video! I like the pictures with descriptions. It will be very useful for me😉💗

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Thanks! Yeah, I used to see videos in the past without them and would sometimes wonder what I was looking at, so decided to add them whenever possible and credit the museum or photographer when necessary. Thanks for watching!

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Please do a video on the relationship between the Anatolian / Middle Eastern civilizations and the civilizations around the Black Sea like Dacians , Thracians , etc

[@BiggestCorvid]

Great video! So many people say they would like to go back in time and be warriors and whatnot. I'd love to be a scribe. Memorizing a lot of specific weird rules that are useless outside of very specific applications is sort of my jam. (I would probably be a slave or landless peasant but hey, goals matter).

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Yeah I'd just love to be a scribe or simple librarian in the Library of Ashurbanipal or in Alexandria. That's honestly the life for me!

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[@RatzoMcFatso]

This was a great video. Hearing about the lives of the people who kept communities working is what I find most interesting about history. What was life like for people who weren’t kings or priests. Scribes have given a lot of information about their lives in private letters and writings. That’s the real history. Great work Cy.

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Thanks! I have a big one on Mesopotamia / Babylonia coming out soon...thanks for watching!

[@suranumitu7734]

Just a little nitpick: uni-, bi-, and triliteral signs represent one, two, or three consonants, not syllables. For example (iirc) the hieroglyph of a head represents the consonants /tp/, with no indication of vowels (or syllables).

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Thanks for watching and the clarification! More on the way, stay tuned!

[@jf7805]

Thank you for posting. I was just saying yesterday that I think I was a scribe in a past life.

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Yeah given my love of books and the written word, I think I might have been one as well. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and more on the way!

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Great video! I love your Egyptian series.

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Great stuff, Cy! I love these slice-of-life videos that describe the lives of comparatively average ancient people.

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People like you are the scribes of our time, and so thank you for all the historical videos

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that scribes were as essential to ancient Egyptian society as IT is to ours in 2022.

[@HistorywithCy]

Very true, both are the unnamed heroes of their respective societies! Thanks for watching!

[@claudiodeugenio]

When was papyrus / papyrus rolls introduced in Egypt, the Levante, and Mesopotamia?

[@HistorywithCy]

Great question. So the earliest actual papyri that has been discovered (at least according to what I remember) dates to the time of the Giza pyramids around 2600-2500 BC. However, scholars believe that it was at least in existence sometime around or before 3000 BC. I don't know the answer for the Levant and Mesopotamia - in the latter, it was not common at all since clay tablets with cuneiform were the norm. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!

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Thanks my friend, glad you found it interesting! More on daily life in Egypt and Sumer on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

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[@shaniell.mathur6372]

Ancient scribes of India are called - KAYASTHA. Very similar history to the scribes of ancient Egypt. Great video. thank you for uploading

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Coming really soon, hopefully this weekend!

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Main stream media for that day.

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Yeah!!!

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[@massimosquecco8956]

There were really more scribes than construction workers (boat builders as well) in Ancient Egypt. If so, how do you tell?

[@SisterWomen]

I adored this so much. I would love love love to know more about the the alleged scriptorium at Qumran. I know that no Christian documents were recovered at Qumran however ... after discussing what Qumran means to Judaism, it must be seriously evaluated what it also might have meant to the original Christians. I know the ways in which academia dismisses these notions, based on prejudice toward religion and political appeasement. Yet the heart and mind do seek the truth.

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One day I hope to cover it...thanks for watching!

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First time ever that I saw your face, I was actually surprised to realize that the voice has a body lol I wasn't expecting that

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Haha I've shown it in some of the other videos but yeah, not too often unless I have to. That might change in the near future. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

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[@kendethstryke3020]

Praise be to the scribes of old indeed.

[@adrianokury]

With my limited skills I can clearly read the text fragment at 6:25 = spH niA in = "lassoing ibex by.....", or at least I think that's the translation....

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha you could be right, I have to look at my hieroglyph dictionary to confirm. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

[@LuisAldamiz]

You may want to remaster this with higher volume, I have some difficulty listening even with all the volume sliders maxed. Otherwise very good, like always.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look into it. Thanks for watching and your support, always really appreciate it!

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When will your Episode on Nabtia Come?

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No plans in the immediate future...but Fall of Civilizations did a great one on the subject recently, check it out!

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@@HistorywithCy I did but didn't like it

[@SkyFly19853]

That's interesting... 🤔 reminds me video game Sierra's Pharaoh Video Game... 😏

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

Man that brings back memories. However I never played that specific video game. I stuck to playing Age of Mythology and Age of Empires.

[@HistorywithCy]

Oh man, that was a old game... I remember seeing once though never got to play it. I also played a lot of Age of Empires and Civilization as a kid. Thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned!

[@AGS363]

It is funny to note, that scribes could write and read, but masons did not. As a result, there are quite some spelling mistakes in Egyptian tombs.

[@crimsOn0011]

I guess just like today, scientists, lawyers, military officers, engineers are still well respected amd services are sought for. Five thousand year history of scribedom. (As an engineer I have some bias of course)

[@MikeScott-ez7iw]

My brother's and sister's we can't let Egypt steal African culture 🧫 we have to educate this generation of black students period 💯 true

[@anon3336]

I wish I were an ancient Egyptian scribe.

[@HistorywithCy]

Yes, if I could be one person in ancient Egypt besides the pharaoh, it'd be a scribe. Thanks for watching!

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Strange, you don't address how the communication with other civilization ls was also conducted

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[@Ishkur23]

Priest: What are you writing? Scribe: I'm recording the grains of dust around the feet of the statue of Ramesses at Abu Simbel. Priest: Why? Scribe: So the people will know. Priest: What people? Nobody cares about that. Scribe: PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE MIGHT!!

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Haha exactly! We, the people of the future need to know this stuff! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and more on the way, stay tuned!

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Well, how many grains of sand were there! The people of the future demand answers.

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[@sidjoosin6549]

its letters, not hieroglyphs. so constant alphabet exists, no "new hieroglyphs" added. its fommon misconception among Europeans, while that letters always was "decifered" and well known and well read by Arabs and books about it always was and is available and famous

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