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 ...

The scribes in this new study lived during ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom (2700 to 2180 BCE). This is also the time of the pyramid builders and when the king was regarded as a living god.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Relief depicting two scribes from Mastaba of Akhethotep at Saqqara, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty. Collection of The Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images.