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.