Al-Ahram Weekly Online   21 - 27 September 2006
Issue No. 813
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Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

History speaks

By Ali Rahmy
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Ancient Egyptian scribes and calligraphy

The Art of learning and thus reading and writing was one of the most powerful forces in the ancient Egyptian civilization.

The Egyptians valued learning because of the superiority which the learned men possessed over the unlearned

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