For example, the philosopher's stone is based on a story about Nicolas Flamel, a 14th century scribe who claimed to have discovered a stone giving him eternal life.
By degrees, however, the place resolved itself into a bare and dirty room with a couple of windows, whereof a tenth part might be of glass, the remainder being stopped up with old copy books and paper.
She was writing busily, her face screwed up with the effort, her tongue clamped between her teeth, when the front door opened and a great draft of cold wind swept the store.
The famous orator Cicero said that the end of a sentence ought to be determined not by a stroke interposed by a copyist, but by the constraint of the rhythm.
In this video, we're going to explore his responsibilities as the scribe who kept track of the dead in Egyptian mythology, his worship and myths associated with him.