Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoTIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods.www.britishmuseum.orgexternal-linkmessage-square3linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 11 days agomessage-square3linkfedilink
minus-squarekurwa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoHow’d they do accounting before writing?
minus-squareHegar@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·11 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.
How’d they do accounting before 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.