Was this meant for the list ? Anyhow, I doubt that a complicated writing
system such as the Egyptian could have emerged by mistake, and even if it
did it would have been quickly forgotten if there hadn't been professional
scribes in the service of the state.
O.K.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear professor There-and-then
This is a remainder of your outstanding article on the emergence of
writing, mistakenly, in the Egypt of Pharoic times. There is a questiont
hat is unanswered: Could not the old man simply remove from society all
those who had said knowledge?
In anticipation, I remain
phatic
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