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Line 1: Pens In 3000 BC, the ancient Egyptians used "Juncus maritimus", or '''sea rushes''', to develop writing on papyrus scrolls. Sea rushes were used to make thin reed bushes/reed pens. Scribes used reed pens to write books and documents. The pens were still in their low stages by 1300 B.C., when the Romans developed a '''[https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+stylus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1iPf-ianSAhVI-2MKHSyrC6QQ_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=662&safe=active&ssui=on#safe=strict&tbm=isch&q=old+metal+stylus&*&imgrc=KwHkYBHuEJvPFM: metal stylus]'''. In Asia, in the same years, scribes used bronze stylus. Forwarding several years later, the Egyptians advanced into employing thick Calamus/Bamboo reeds, obtaining them from Armenia and Egypt.

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