Ancient Egyptians had developed penmanship on papyrus scrolls when scribes used fragile reed brushes or reed pens from the Juncus Maritimus or sea rush . In his book A History of Writing, Steven Roger Fischer suggests that on the basis of finds at Saqqara, the reed pen might well have been used for calligraphy Personalized Pens on parchment as long ago as the First Dynasty or about 3000 BC. Reed pens continued to be not new until the Intermediate Ages although they were slowly replaced by quills from about the seventh century.
The quill pen was used in Qumran, Judea to write some of the Dead Blue Scrolls, and then introduced into Europe by around 700 AD. It was used in 1787 to write and divination the Constitution of the United States of America. The Dead Multitude Scrolls discovered in 1947 on the northwest bank of the Dead Expanse date back to around 100 BC.