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Which was true about Egyptian scribes?

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Being a scribe was a good job in Ancient Egypt. Scribes didn't have to pay taxes or enter the army. They were very highly thought of and only the children of the wealthy got the opportunity to train as scribes. The Ancient Egyptians often wrote on tablets or walls, but they also wrote on a type of paper called papyrus.

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Scribes were in attendance to record the stocks of foods, court proceedings, wills and other legal documents, tax records, magic spells and all of the things that happened every day in the life of the pharaoh. Scribes were one of the most important functions that kept the administration in order.

Except from a text used in the New Kingdom for the instruction of scribes. Cited in The Egyptians, edited by Sergio Donadoni. A scribe's equipment consisted of a stone or wooden palette containing two cakes of ink, usually red and black, a leather bag or pot filled with water, and a set of reed brushes (pens).

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