A Brief History of Writing
Jane A. Lewis
This chapter shows images of ancient writings through modern day business writings. In the beginning we communicated with pictures. Cave paintings from 20,000 to 35,000 BC initiated path handwriting. Sumerian cuneiform existed as first written language. Ancient Egyptian writing and Phoenician Greek alphabets followed. The Roman alphabet, which grew established preeminence script Empire (Gaur, Albertine, 1992, A History Writing, Cross River Press, New York, London, Paris).

The emperor Charlemagne (742–814 AD) unified Western Europe promoted Carolingian miniscule style (ibid). Gothic advanced in 12th 13th centuries. Angular, heavy, vertical represented this style. Calligraphy comes word kalligraphia, means beautiful writing, preceded writing. Austin Norman Palmer (1860–1927) became a fine penman. He is famous for developing Method Zaner–Bloser method also developed during time. concludes pictograms seen symbols like those bars, restrooms, airplanes.
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