The birth of writing! - History of Writing Systems #2 (Pictographs in a cave)

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Video

John Horgan
by NativLang
published on 12 October 2017

Writing started out as pictures? Yep! Journey to a cave full of pictographs in ancient France and see how it all began.

You just took Thoth's Pill. Now watch as early cave paintings turn into pictographs and ideographs. Where will history take us from here?

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