Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Oldest Forms of the Media

Top Ten List:
1. Heiroglyphics - Egypt - circa 3000 BC
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Of these, I will elaborate upon 3 of them...

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Heiroglyphics - Egypt - circa 3000 BC

Ancient Egyptian writing uses more than 2,000 hieroglyphic characters. Each hieroglyph represents a common object in ancient Egypt. Hieroglyphs could represent the sound of the object or they could represent an idea associated with the object.

A modern type of hieroglyphic writings would be a rebus. A rebus is a picture puzzle that can be "sounded out" by reading the sounds symbolized by the pictures. When these sounds are read aloud together, the statements often becomes obvious.


Source:
http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/hiero_over.html

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