It would take about twelve years to be trained as a scribe. Only one person in a hundred could read or write back then. Scribes were needed to be the Accountants of their day. They recorded food coming in to the graneries. They calculated how much food and supplies were needed for government projects and tomb building. They could be hired to write reports and letters for those who did not know how to do such things.
Scribes not only did the writing. They made the papyrus.
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Egyptian scribes were important for recording government information and keeping public records.
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I seriously have no clue why the scribes were important to Egyptian society. I will have you know that if you ask me that again i will cut your head off. hahahahaha I am just joking.
The civil servant from Ancient Egypt is called scribes or sekhau.