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Egyptian writing has always fascinated modern people because it is so exotic. Researchers studying Egyptian writing in manuscripts from an ancient Egyptian temple have made an important discovery. They were studying the black and red inks in some of the ancient texts when they found that their composition was unique. They discovered that the inks used in Egyptian writing were specifically composed to dry quickly, just like inks developed thousands of years later during the European Renaissance. An Analysis Of Egyptian Writing Reveals Ink Breakthrough Recently, a Danish cross-disciplinary team were examining texts from Egypt’s Tebtunis temple library when they uncovered the secrets of the pigments used in Egyptian writing. The library of papyri texts was found in the Fayum