What was the ancient Egyptian currency?
That is why I provide references, no offense to the other answers, but they might have looked harder for your answer, because they don’t have it. PLEASE, look at the sites I provided, as it explaines how things were paid for. Your question is next to impossible to answer so I tried to make it as clear as I could, the site should help. But there was no such thing as a newspaper in any ancient civilizations, news was free spread by word of mouth. If you can and want to make it more realistic, make it a Papyris skroll, like a book of the dead. They were books of spells and acomplishments made by priest for the poor (99.9 pecent of ancient Egyptians) It was the in the for ancient Egyptians to hire and yes, pay, but no evidence as to what to have a book of the dead writtien for him for when he (only males) dies. Like the Pahroah starting his tomb before he dies. You could offer the priest a stone caving of a god for hius temple, red ocre was used by priests, or insence. But I cannot tell yo
