The Life of Scribes and Scribal Schools in Ancient Egypt

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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[odysseus]

It is insane how detailed pictures of everyday life those documents can offer, 4000 years later. Great video!

[AndrewFullerton]

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[ancientsitesgirl]

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

[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.

[buttercxpdraws]

I was just rewatching your Mesopotamia playlist last night for the 50th time! Love your work Cy 💕 Thank you for these fascinating videos 😊

[johnssmith]

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

[robbabcock_]

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

[JenneeB]

Great video! I love your Egyptian series.

[tonyar]

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

[jf]

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

[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).

[suranumitu]

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).

[SobekLOTFC]

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[davidfigueroa]

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[m-a-s-e-y]

I remember when History with Cy was below 100, 000 subs!

[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.

[claudiodeugenio]

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

[QalOrt]

Oh you are wetting my appetite for Dynasty XIII

[shaniell.mathur]

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

[TheLastOutlaw-KTS]

The scribes understood entrepreneurship😮

“He is Boss” is like the sound of that my Seneb😂❤