Naymerith t1_iuxisf3 wrote on November 3, 2022 at 7:03 PM Reply to comment by petalised in How did people store their writings in Ancient Greek and Rome? by petalised Speaking for ancient egypt, they actually made ink from a number of materials and, though more expensive, even were able to produce different colors. Writing was done with different materials, for instance pens carved from reed plants. Like this: https://d18xwelq3wp3pf.cloudfront.net/community/blogosphere/wp-content/uploads/Rachel/Image_3.jpg Basically, aslong as you have ink and are creative you can use anything as a pencil. Permalink Parent 6
Naymerith t1_iuxcolc wrote on November 3, 2022 at 6:24 PM Reply to How did people store their writings in Ancient Greek and Rome? by petalised They wrote on wax tablets but also things like leather and papyrus. The oldest found papyrus scroll I beleive was in 3000 bc, so it way predates the roman times. Permalink 5
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Reply to comment by petalised in How did people store their writings in Ancient Greek and Rome? by petalised
Speaking for ancient egypt, they actually made ink from a number of materials and, though more expensive, even were able to produce different colors.
Writing was done with different materials, for instance pens carved from reed plants. Like this: https://d18xwelq3wp3pf.cloudfront.net/community/blogosphere/wp-content/uploads/Rachel/Image_3.jpg
Basically, aslong as you have ink and are creative you can use anything as a pencil.