Egyptian hieroglyphs (3300 BCE): The ancientEgyptiansused hieroglyphics, which were pictures that represented sounds or ideas. These symbols were carved onto walls and tombs, telling stories of their gods and pharaohs. Chinese script (1500 BCE): Chinesewriting, with its intricate characters, began a...
(from the omnipresent Latin all the way to obscure scripts like Old Permic, a 14th-century adaptation of Cyrillic that fell out of use 400 years ago) and tens of thousands of symbols (among them hundreds of arrows, math symbols, domino tiles, alchemy, and Egyptian hieroglyphs right next ...
of a new world, of a new reality; it’s the loss of who we were becoming and who we thought we were; the loss of a future; and more importantly, the loss of the belief that we too might be deserving of this ecstatic and blissful eternal love which we always ...