Writing dates back as far as 35000bce in europe when the first carvings where discovered in europe, camel hair was used for the earlies know pencils up untilag approx 1560 when an italin couple discovered a way of encasing the pencil in wood.Pens can be dated as far back as far as 3000 bc know as the reed pen used by the ancient egyptians until the discovery of the quill pens which we used to write the dead sea scrools the earliest fountain pen was thought to be invented in the mid 900s in egypt