People who could write in ancient Rome we called either a scriptor, an auctor, or a scriba. A scriba connoted a professional writer.
People forgot o read and write
Epigraphy (epi = "on"; graph = write).
History is so imperfect because people believe in different things. Some people will think a person could be a hero and others list things that consider him a villain. People write their side of the story on how they saw it happened. History goes back to billions of years with the fact that people were not there when it happened we have to make predictions and find research to investigate how something possibly could have occurred. With predictions and research this could lead to little and/or false information that may or may not be true.
It is recorded that Charlemagne could not write, and this seems to have bothered him because he kept writing materials by his bed when he was old so he could practice. We have no statement to the effect that he could not read, and in fact do have statements that he kept books near him. He also understood a number of languages, including Latin.
'''The romans did have a kind of paper made from reeds, and wrote on animal skins, but this was too expensive for children to write on. Schoolboys would write on wax tablets with a pointed metal stylus. They then rubbed the wax smooth and started again.'''
A person who could write in Ancient Egypt was called a scribe. I'm not kidding you.- WikiAnswers.com
Some wealthy people could read and write ancient Hebrew, and some couldn't. Just as some non-wealthy people could read and write ancient Hebrew, and some couldn't.Unlike other cultures of the time, literacy was high among ancient Hebrew males.
In ancient Egypt only the scribes learnt to read and write!
Many if skilled would be classed as scribes
They were the first people to write the alphabet. The Ancient Greek's
most of people were farmers because not many of the ancient Chinese could read or write
Back then these people were called scribes and had to go to a special school to learn to do this because not everyone could read or write Back then these people were called scribes and had to go to a special school to learn to do this because not everyone could read or write
A scriptor, auctor or scriba.
so they could write letters to each other and to educate people
in Ancient Egypt, you had specialist doctors who knew the basics of medicine, how to treat illnesses and how to prevent them. they were very clever, they had people that could write called "scribes" who you could pay to write whatever you wanted for example: a new medicine mixture/remedy. Egypt was the first advanced civilisation.
There were things called Royal Scribes that were the pharoah's personal scribe (if they were the top royal scribe;there were many). But there were also many scribes that had nothing to do with the government of Ancient Egypt.
most people wrote on rocks with harder rocks