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A scribe (or scrivener) is a person who writes books or ocuments by hand. The profession lost most of its importance with the advent of printing.

Trivia about scribe

  • Ahmes, one of these copyists, made an ancient Egyptian math table papyrus that is still in existence
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.) At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has his papyrus roll, but someone took his brush