Wednesday, September 17, 2008

life in Ancient Egypt -Reading and writing







  • In Ancient Egypt children used to practice on brocken pieces of pottery.


  • Because papyrus was to expensive .


  • papyrus is the first paper most writing was done on .It's made out of strips of pith from a kind of reed that grew along the banks of the nile river .


  • (Hieroglyphs)that is the kind of writing they had in ancient egypt . there are different kinds of pictures to represent the different meanings . hieroglphs can be written side to side or top to bottom . the oldest known hieroglyphs writing dates back to around 3200 bc and the last is 394 AD.


  • The main writing instrument was a reed , cut at the end make a nib ink was made out of vegetables gum and soot .


  • Scribes carried their pens and ink in special boxes.




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