Scribes: Not everyone learned to read and write in ancient Egypt. Only one group of people called scribes was allowed to have this knowledge. And most often the children of scribes would be the ones to learn, sometimes priests would be able to learn to write and read about the gods.
Who were the scribes? Scribes were people in ancient Egypt (usually men) who learned to read and write. Although experts believe that most scribes were men, there is evidence of some female doctors. These women would have been trained as scribes so that they could read medical texts.
In this modern day, most of our knowledge of ancient Egypt are because of the scribes. According to, from our modern day research, the ancient Egyptians covered their temples and tombs with hieroglyphs, but they used the scribes to record everything for the workers that work in the stocks held in stores, proceedings in court, magic spells, wills and other legal contracts, medical procedures, tax records, and genealogies. How did they become scribes? The Egyptians hieroglyphic language is very complex because learning over seven hundred unique signs with can have many different meanings is hard to learn. These students would study hieroglyphics, hieratic, demotic and mathematics, but also they would learn writing, as that was needed for many high-level jobs, for example, some of these jobs are the architect, tax collector, and treasurer. But ancient Egyptian school was very strict and discipline so some tutors used the stick. To get through scribe school it would sometimes take up to four to five years