Tutankhamun's Egypt

BBC Four

1:50 AM to 2:10 AM

Wednesday 5 February

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Cyril Aldred explores how ancient Egyptian scribes used hieroglyphs and other scripts derived from them for very businesslike purposes. On their papyrus writing paper, they amassed a formidable volume of records, accounts, calculations and book-keeping. The scribes were the essential administrative backbone of a highly organised state machine. First broadcast 21 May 1972