Where Do You Find Hieroglyphs?

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.