Ancient Egyptian Scribes Faced 'Occupational Risk' Too. Published Jun 27, 2024 at 11:00 AM EDT Updated Jun 27, 2024 at 7:17 PM EDT. By .

The Egyptian men assumed one of three positions that became an occupational hazard, the study authors found. Researchers analyzed the remains of 69 men buried at a necropolis in Abusir, Egypt ...

A study of skeletal remains dated to the 3rd millennium B.C. has revealed the occupational hazards that ancient Egyptian scribes may have faced thousands of years ago. The study, published in the ...

Ancient Egyptian statues and art depict scribes holding cross-legged or kneeling positions while working. Martin Frouz / Czech Institute of Egyptology In ancient Egypt, scribes held one of the ...

The study provided insights from skeletons uncovered in Abusir, an ancient Egyptian archaeological pyramid complex. Many studies on the remains of ancient Egyptian scribes have fo ...

A new study suggests the ergonomics of an Egyptian scribe’s working life may be revealed in their bones. Statues from Abusir, Egypt depict the scribe Nefer and his wife. New research suggests ...

Old Kingdom scribes generally wrote in hieratic, the cursive script that developed around 2700 B.C. Simpler than the formal hieroglyphs used in temples and tombs, hieratic allowed a scribe to ...

Ancient Egyptian scribes held high-status jobs, making up some of the 1% of Egyptians who could read and write at that time. But the scribes suffered for it: New research published in Scientific ...

Ancient Egyptians might have understood an occupational hazard of today’s office workers: an achy back and neck. That’s according to an analysis of the skeletons of scribes, who would have sat ...