Though used in administrative and business text ,Īlso found its way into literature and religious texts!Īround 600 BC it was supplanted by the most cursive Hieratic script was simplified with a more cursiveĬould be drawn more quickly as over the years it The Hieratic, the Demotic and the Coptic, as Through its 3000 year’s long history it developed Written on temple walls, statues, tombs, papyrus , The hieroglyphics were used for many varied To assist the great Thoth, their Writing God ! Holding a scribal palette in one hand and in theĪnd King Ramesses II holding up a water ***,. Where Thoth the ibis-headed God, - patron Deity The oldest one dates back to 3100 BC, - inside the Temple of Isis, on the Island of Philae ! They were used from end of Prehistory to 396 AD,Īnd the last text was written on the walls of the The images were depicted in rows or columns, -Īnd the signs were positioned as if looking towards Hieroglyph comes from a Greek word meaningĬonsisting of a large variety of images representing Like a frog? If not, do not go to war with us,. In the ground like a mouse, leap through the swamps When translated it read: “Can you fly like a bird, hide This letter contained symbols of a bird, a mouse, Herodotus the Greek historian tells us a story ,Ībout a letter sent by the Scythians to the Persian King Who recorded all temple wealth on clay tablets, – Sangu was the Chief Official of their Holy Temples , Indicate accounting of barley crops by the Sangu The earliest clay tablets found in Mesopotamia, That with modifications over the centuries thisīy the Akkadians, Elamites, the Hittites and theĪnd scholars say that it was the forerunner of the While archeologists and linguists could detect The earliest clay tablets date back to 3500 BC These tablets could be dried in the sun to formĪnd also recycled if necessary, giving birth to the To inscribe wedge shaped angular symbols onĬlay tablets - for their accounting needs! Those Sumerians used a stylus, - the head of a Rose the earliest of ancient civilizations called On that land between the two rivers the Tigris and Let me now tell you something about the Sumerian The Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs Giving rise to Chinese script without alphabets, but Ideograms expressed an idea through visual or graphic Till the Latin script got refined into modern alphabets,Īnd with 26 letters our literary aspirations were met !Īncient pictogram and symbols were painted andīut speech sounds and letters remained unrelated !įollowed by the ideographic, logographic, and theĮvolving into written alphabets through these different Up to the Phoenicians, the Greeks, right up to the The story of writing can be traced back to overįrom pictogram to ideograms and various cuneiformįrom the ancient Sumerians and the Egyptians, to Has a legendary and checkered past, and an unique The 26 English letters with which we read and express When people began to read and write with standard In the olden days those magical symbols andĬould be written and understood only by theīut with the invention of printing, literacy began Information in my verses for my few interested readers!Īlphabets are the noblest and the greatest ofįor transmitting human thoughts and concepts Dear Friends, kindly read the Foot Notes at the end forīetter appreciation.
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