worth noting that hieroglyphics are absolutely fucking incomprehensible even if you know how to read them, and have fun etching that stuff into stone.
i wouldn’t call it illiterate in the same way as people are these days, it’s like calling most people these days “illiterate in assembly programming language”
Everyday Egyptians meaning scribes, as most of everyone else were illiterate.
worth noting that hieroglyphics are absolutely fucking incomprehensible even if you know how to read them, and have fun etching that stuff into stone.
i wouldn’t call it illiterate in the same way as people are these days, it’s like calling most people these days “illiterate in assembly programming language”
I was referring to demotic.