Scribes In Ancient Egypt

The Ancient Egyptians had strong beliefs that when they died their spiritual body would continue to exist in the afterlife similar to their living world. The role of the afterlife played a huge part in the life’s of Egyptians that it influenced their everyday life. Egyptians were not guaranteed that their spiritual body would continue to exist that they would recite spells in order to be clean and pure. The Book of the Dead was used as a guide by Egyptians because they believed that it was an everlasting form of how the life of an Egyptian should be. Achieving the afterlife so that their spiritual body would continue to exist was very important to Egyptians that they recited the spells from the Book of the Dead,followed a system of writing …show more content…
Not only did they developed a system of writing but they discovered that the grass that surrounded them could be processed into an inexpensive and durable form of paper known as the papyrus that lasted for years. The discovery of the papyrus paper made the Egyptians place a particular emphasis on scribes because they were able to record the importance and significance of scribes. The statements of scribes became important to Egyptians because they believed that following them would help their journey to reach the afterlife. Scribes became significant in the lives of Egyptians because not everyone knew how to read and write, so only a particular group of people could have this knowledge. Egyptians had to attend a specific school to be able to understand a scribe because they were difficult to read and translate. Scribes were meaningful to Egyptians because they are hieroglyphic scripts that had information of the past. These hieroglyphics scribes were a symbol of the writings of memorials on great monuments in which some of them listed the commands of the gods to the Egyptian people. Egyptians followed what the scribes had written on them because they believed that it would make their pathway to reaching the afterlife easier. According to them their journey to the afterlife would be easier because they obeyed the commands of the gods that were listed on some scribes. Being able to satisfy the desires of the gods meant their spiritual bodies would reach the afterlife because while being alive anything was done to please the desires of the