Who were the scribes?

Scribes were the men who, at a younges age, mastered the skill of writing and wrote the ancient language. 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 bushes.

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