Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoTIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods.www.britishmuseum.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down11
arrow-up157arrow-down1external-linkTIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods.www.britishmuseum.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squareHegar@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·24 days agoTally systems and icons. It’s from these icons that writing emerges. China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.
Tally systems and icons. It’s from these icons that writing emerges.
China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.