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Where Do You Find Hieroglyphs - Writing tools
When writing on papyrus, scribes would make use of a palette which was usually made of wood, had a sliding cover, held several reed pens and had holes to hold cakes of ink black and red. The ends of the reed pens were frayed usually by chewing to create something similar to a modern paint brush. Pointed reed pens were introduced by the Greeks during the third century BCE.