ocr: Scribe EEUI EEN Most people in Ancient Egypt could not read or write, SO they needed scribes to perform these tasks for them. Scribes also worked in the govemment and as architects, doctors, and judges. Some children went to school to leamn how to be scribes. Most children in scribe school were wealthy, but some poor boys--and a few giris-became scribes as well. Egyptians wrote with. signs called hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were difficult tol learn. Children learning to be scribes started school when they were See Also: five years old. They went to school for Children 10 years. Students learned t ...
