Visconti Homo Sapiens Dark Age - Fountain PenHOMO SAPIEN DARK AGE COLLECTION. More than 5,000 years ago, with the invention of writing, the pre history of humankind ceased and the Homo Sapiens marked the dawn of human history. The first great civilizations arose and the development of sciences such as geometry, astronomy and engineering commenced. Conceived for serious writers, the material comprising this pen is as ancient as the world itself: lava from Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy (Europe's