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If the ancient Egyptians would
not had adorned the temples, the bas-reliefs, the statues and
the frescos with wall script about the pharaohs, gods, nobles or
simple people, we would not be able to find out so many details
about the ancient Egypt today. The ancient Egyptians had a real
passion for the wall script and of the immortalization on this
way of all the life’s social aspects. They also had a special
feeling for the great and eternal works of art. All the great
Egyptian edifices would not have a meaning if the Egyptians
wouldn’t had the art of script to transmit to the posterity
their messages from beyond the death. The Egyptians are the
later country who invented the writing, after the Sumeriens.
This thing happened with 55000 years ago. The wall script is on
the Amun temple’s walls, on the colons of the Luxor temple, on
the pedestal of the gigantic statues of Ramses II. This is
despite the fact that very few people could read at that time.
It seems that about 1% from the people was alphabetized. The
fact that only so few people new to read and to write while the
writing was present all around them, gave a special importance
to those who knew that secret: the scribes. They were very
respected in Egypt and their occupation was one of the most
appreciated. There was a professional hierarchy inside this
chaste. The most of the scribes had simple tasks like writing
the marriage contracts or the ones of selling-buying. Other
scribes were close to the priests or high nobles. The most
important of them were working at the pharaoh’s court. A scribe
had to learn about 700 signs, from which some of them were
representing ideas or sounds. |
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