Although ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt are two very different civilizations, they do have one thing in common. These two civilizations are both credited with being one of the first civilizations to invent their own writing style. 7 The two writing systems addressed in this essay have many differences, but also many similarities. Despite the fact that both ancient writings started as pictograms and evolved from that, they come from different civilizations and time periods.
Despite the fact that both languages began as pictograms8, there are few similarities between these two writing systems. Pictograms were simple drawings of objects, used by prehistoric civilizations. They were used to depict what was seen and known during the time period. They used symbols to represent the words for the objects in their particular language. Pictographs were translated universally, because they were easily recognizable to civilizations of a different language. Both writing systems helped create the evolution of writing, and help the current world to know more about these two civilizations. These writing systems were the first written accounts of history. They illustrate the beliefs and values of each civilization, as well as how advanced they were. Both writing systems consisted of very detailed letters that represented different sound. Although, cuneiform and Hieroglyphics were completely different, but they still served the same purpose; to communicate information within a civilization.9
The differences between Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics are many and drastic and help us find differences within the two civilizations. Cuneiform writing was invented by the Sumerians around 3500 B.C. then later Hieroglyphic writing was formulated by the anci...
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that ancient mesopotamia and egypt are two very different civilizations, but they have one thing in common: they were the first to invent their own writing style.
- Explains that pictograms were simple drawings of objects used by prehistoric civilizations. they used symbols to represent the words for the objects in their particular language. both writing systems helped create the evolution of writing.
- Explains the differences between cuneiform and hieroglyphics, stating that the rosetta stone was discovered in the nile delta during napoleon bonaparte's expedition.
- Explains that ancient mesopotamia and egypt are two very different civilizations, but they have one thing in common: they were the first to invent their own writing style.
- Explains that pictograms were simple drawings of objects used by prehistoric civilizations. they used symbols to represent the words for the objects in their particular language. both writing systems helped create the evolution of writing.
- Explains the differences between cuneiform and hieroglyphics, stating that the rosetta stone was discovered in the nile delta during napoleon bonaparte's expedition.
- Explains that hieroglyphics ancient egyptian writing and alphabet translator write your name.
- Cites david, a. rosalie, mertz, barbara, and william morrow in their book, "egypt's golden empire."
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- Explains how ancient egyptians and romans shaped the world's literature. they were the first to develop literary devices and religious texts, and created their version of paper and ink.
- Explains that ancient egyptians carved sections of the book into the walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted them outside or inside coffins.
2285 wordsRead More - History Of Writingexplanatory essayAccording to array of proofs discovered in many countries all over the world by the archaeologists, it is said that Writing has been existing for such a long time and it is continuously developed with the flow of time. At the beginning, the symbols in writing systems do not have any relationship with the sound of the language which called non – phonological systems (Crystal, 1986)
In this essay, the author
- Explains the aim of this report is to define the history of writing, how the writing system changed through the development of human society.
- Explains that writing has been existing for such a long time and it is continuously developed with the flow of time.
- Explains that these systems of writing provided the picture of the entities which the people wanted to mention but did not contain any linguistic elements.
- Explains the aim of this report is to define the history of writing, how the writing system changed through the development of human society.
- Explains that writing has been existing for such a long time and it is continuously developed with the flow of time.
- Explains that these systems of writing provided the picture of the entities which the people wanted to mention but did not contain any linguistic elements.
- Explains that prehistoric man began to draw the paintings of the cattle they had, their work instruments or the activities in daily life on the cliff walls around 36,000 bc. these images were considered as the first form of writing.
- Explains that the writing system was developed with the appearance of the pictographs, which were ambiguous and difficult to decipher today.
- Explains that ideograms are the pictorial symbols of objects of concepts which are used as the agreement or custom of people.
- Explains that logograms are still being used in modern writing with chinese and japanese kanji, which are the best-known representatives.
- Explains that syllabaries are based on the sound structure of words. linear b in mycenaean greek was deciphered by michael ventris in 1952 – 1952.
- Cites sally gentieu welch's website, a brief history of graphic communication.
- Cites crystal e.'s metaphysical and science website, http://www.crystalinks.com/petroglyphs, accessed 11/11/2007.
- Explains the omniglot writing systems and language of the world website, syllabaries.
- Explains that greek terminology is available on the university of texas at austin website.
- Explains the web site of ally gentieu welch, a brief history of graphic communication.
- Explains the university of texas at austin website's greek terminology, available at http://gle/greek_dict.php.
- Explains that syllabaries, omniglot writing systems and language of the world website, is available at http://www.omniglo
- Explains that the ancients used clay tokens as a tool of recording their business transactions for thousands of years. the phonographic principle was adopted into sumerian writing about 3000 bc.
- Explains the phoenician alphabet, which is considered the original form of greek and roman alphabets.
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