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During the Stone Age, humans began to “write” using images to express their perceptions. Writing emerged when people replaced images with symbolic characters.
Around 6000 years ago, in regions such as Abylone, China, and Greece, humans used their fingers or sticks to draw on clay what they perceived.
Subsequently, people learned to use symbols, primarily images, to convey their thoughts. In the fourth millennium, a tribe of Sumers in southern Mesopotamia invented a cuneiform script. They wrote in “wedge” shapes (like the tip of a nail) on clay using sharpened reeds.
Around 1500 BC, the Phoenicians created an alphabet based on sounds. It closely resembles the alphabet we use today.
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