hieroglyphic+writing

=Hieroglyphic Writing= Hieroglyphic writing is a system that employs characters in the form of pictures. These individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for pictures, or as symbols for sounds. The need to identify a pictorial representation with a specific, unique event, such as a hunt or a particular battle, led to the invention of hieroglyphic writing. Hieroglyphs added to a scene signified that this illustration represented a particular war rather than an unspecified one or war in general. This new attitude toward time and toward history as unique events in time led to the invention of hieroglyphic writing. The system first appeared only in connection with relief depictions, which they explained by means of place-names.