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 ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

Many ancient depictions of Egyptian scribes show them seated cross-legged on the floor or kneeling, but carvings and paintings also show them standing to work, perhaps while making tallies of crops in ...

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 most ...

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 hunched ...

Repetitive tasks carried out by ancient Egyptian scribes — high status men with the ability to write who performed administrative tasks — and the positions they sat in while working may have led to ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during a period of Egyptian history known as the Old Kingdom (around 2649–2130 BC), it was rare for people to be able to read and write. From an estimated population of ...

(CNN) — Performing administrative tasks in ancient Egypt may not sound physically demanding, but new research has revealed that being a scribe left a mark on the skeletons of the men who held those ...

Repetitive stress injuries are a common feature of modern life, especially for office workers who spend a good chunk of their working days at a desk typing on a computer. Apparently, scribes in ...

Ancient Egyptian scribes who put brush to papyrus thousands of years ago are often depicted as kneeling or sitting cross-legged – working postures that apparently took a toll on their bones. The ...

Petra Brukner Havelková receives funding from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2024-2028/7.I.a., National Museum, 00023272) and the Czech Science Foundation through the research ...

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