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All these ideological structures of the Egyptian state were facilitated, if not made possible, by the existence of writing. The origins and development of early Egyptian script formed a seminal part of the creation and maintenance of the state, paralleling the processes of state formation in many respects. The earliest evidence of a coherent system of notation comes from tomb U‐j at Abydos around 3250 BC, while all the elements of the standard Egyptian hieroglyphic script are clear in the mid‐1st dynasty around 2900, and the fully developed usage is attested from the mid‐2nd dynasty on, around 2750. As is the case for the origins of the state, the earliest stages of writing are not entirely clear to us, and scholars debate what elements of the later Egyptian script they already include. Moreover, the reasons why writing originated are also disputed. The discussion here is thus one of several potential reconstructions.