Ancient Writing

Scholars now recognize that writing may have independently developed in at least four ancient civilizations Mesopotamia between and BCE, Egypt around BCE, China BCE, and lowland areas of Mesoamerica by BCE. See more. The history of writing traces the development of expressing language by systems of markings and how these markings were used for various purposes in different societies, thereby See more. Symbolic communication systems are distinguished from writing systems. With writing systems, one must usually understand something of the See more. There is no very definite statement as to the material which was in most common use for the purposes of writing at the start of the early writing systems. In all See more. Writing and the economyAccording to Denise Schmandt-Besserat writing had its origins in the counting and cataloguing of See more. History of numbers History of art List of writing systems History of journalism See more. . More recent examples of this include Cherokee syllabary and Pahawh HRead less