books.google.co.uk - One of the most outstanding inventions of ancient Egypt was the making of "paper" from the papyrus plant. As early as 3000 B.C., sheets and rolls of papyrus provided an ideal surface for writing with reed pen and cakes of carbon black and red ochre pigment. Egyptian scribes were able to record on papyri...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Papyrus.html?id=4xwz9wG80CAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePapyrus
