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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3015183, member: 87200"]Actually speculation is that as time passed the literacy rate improved in Egypt, so that by the late period a decent percentage of the population could read, whereas in the early days this knowledge was largely restricted to priests and scribes. I find this nebu-nefer coin fascinating. However, by the third and fourth century A.D. the knowledge of hieroglyphs was diminishing, with communication mostly occurring in the Coptic dialect and script.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3015183, member: 87200"]Actually speculation is that as time passed the literacy rate improved in Egypt, so that by the late period a decent percentage of the population could read, whereas in the early days this knowledge was largely restricted to priests and scribes. I find this nebu-nefer coin fascinating. However, by the third and fourth century A.D. the knowledge of hieroglyphs was diminishing, with communication mostly occurring in the Coptic dialect and script.[/QUOTE]
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