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History of Writing Systems 15000 – 10000 BCE

Cave paintings at Lascaux 1

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Drawing of visual communication using pictographs, elementary pictures or sketches that represent things depicted.

3600 BCE

Blau Monument combines images and early writing

3100 BCE

Early Sumerian pictographic scripts on clay tablets

3100 BCE

King Zet’s ivory tablet, earliest Egyptian pictographic writing 3

2750 BCE

Formal land-sale contracts written in cuneiform 4

2600 BCE

Early surviving papyrus manuscripts 5

2345 BCE

Pyramid texts in tomb of Unas 6

1739 BCE

Scarab of Ikhnaton and Nefertiti

1650 BCE

Stamp-cylinder seal 8

Inscribed stone objects from Mesopotamia. Etched writing and carved relief figures. This pictographic script contained seeds for development of writing. Information is structured into grids by horizontal and vertical division.

Abstract writing that only few could understand.

Paper like substrate for manuscripts. Papyrus is made from papyrus flowers, which is also used for other items such as sails, mats, cloth, rope, and sandals. 3

Decorative and textural qualities were carved into stone. 7

Carved scarab emblems were used as identification seals. The flat underside was engraved with a hieroglyphic inscription. Hittite, a signature that combines decorative figures and images. It has an image on the side for rolling, and an image on the bottom for stamping. This allows images to be reproduced.

Hieratic scripts

1420 BCE

Papyrus of Ani

1300 BCE

Early Book of the Dead papyrus scrolls

197 BCE

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The writing evolved into hieroglyphics.

1500 BCE

400 BCE

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Invented and developed for keeping records, accounts, and writing letters.

Demotic scripts

A northern variant of the Hieratic script. Used for writing documents in ink on papyrus. 9

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Rosetta Stone

Used to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics by Champollion.

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