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

Certain papyri of ancient Egypt, now deposited in the British Museum ... at least one thing is certain—the writing-fluid used by the ancient scribes for such records as the foregoing must ...

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 ...