Scribes

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 * Scribes used were highly paid and well respected.
 * The scribes wrote on paper made from papyrus.
 * Only men could be scribes.
 * Students had to remember over 700 hieroglyphs.
 * Boys who wanted to become scribes had to go to scribe school.
 * They were official writers and record keepers.
 * The students had lots of difficulty in school.
 * Students started going to scribe school at the age of five.
 * They used sharpened reeds to write.
 * Everywhere they would go the will take their tools.
 * Most of the students would usually come from artisan or merchant families.