Scribe (skrīb):

n.

1. A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times

2. A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.

3. A writer or journalist.

The scribe played

an important role

in ancient Egypt.

Students were

trained rigorously

from the age of

nine, and master

scribes were often

at the top Egyptian

society. Egyptian

artists were professional

scribes who specialized

in design and draftsmanship

for royal and funerary monuments, their job was to represent the world around them, make things come "alive", so that could exist through eternity and the boundaries of time. This was a culture that celebrated beauty, color, texture, light and dance. Perhaps because because life was so vibrant and vital many people wished to carry that life forward into the next world.