In ancient Egypt of the 3rd millennium B.C., the term "scribe" referred to men who had proficiency in writing and held a wide range of administrative posts or functions. These individuals would ...

And ancient Egyptian iconography commonly depicts scribes writing with their right hands. The posture impacted scribes’ backs. “In a typical scribe’s working position, the head had to be ...

A new study suggests the ergonomics of an Egyptian scribe’s working life ... and it seems the task of writing it all down left its marks on the bones of the kingdom’s scribes.

Many studies on the remains of ancient Egyptian scribes have focused on their titles, statues, and methods of writing, ...

Scribes in ancient Egypt worked positions not too dissimilar ... The scribes also chewed the ends of the rush stems they used for writing implements to create brushlike heads that they spent ...

Art and writing from the time suggest that scribes ... to look at a screen can injure your spine and neck, ancient Egyptian scribes would likely have experienced comparable body stresses from ...

In ancient Egypt, scribes were more than dreary ... “The amount of time scribes spent actually writing might have been dramatically different — so different that some of them may have done ...