The script

 Writing. 
The ancient Egypt made great use of the script. This was so important to the Egyptians who came to attribute its invention to one of their main gods: Thoth, the God of wisdom. The reality, however is very different and has nothing to do with divine interventions. Apparently, the Egyptians learned the script of the peoples of Mesopotamia, the first urban civilizations.At first, the knowledge of writing was an exclusive privilege of priests, but soon his privilege was extended to the figure of scribes and officials of the Pharaoh. Despite this, the vast majority of the Egyptian population was illiterate. The Egyptians used the writing on Papyrus sheets and wall reliefs, a plant very abundant on the banks of the Nile. Although there were various forms of writing, the most used was the type hieroglyphs or holy. Combined words and sounds, which are summed up in more than 700 different signs. This kind of writing used in ancient Egypt in the tombs, temples and the official documentation.

The discovery of the Rosetta Stone, in the late 18th century in the French expedition led by Napoleon Bonaparte in the country of the Nile, made it possible that the Egyptologist Jean-François Champollion could decipher this kind of writing at the beginning of the 19th century (1822). This was possible because this black basalt stone showed the same text, written in three different versions: hieroglyphic, Didymoteicho (simplified form of the Egyptian script) and classical Greek. This fact has allowed us to obtain a very comprehensive knowledge of Egyptian history.