SECTION 4: GRAPHICAL SYMBOL

GRAPHICAL SYMBOL

'Graphical symbol'

• includes the logographs in Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and ancient Chinese pictograms

• found in Africa, the Americas, and Oceania

• still has something to do with 31 ............ use today

Ancient graphic writing systems

• Researchers obtain a wide range of 32 ............ about past civilisations.

• Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 when members of Napoleon's expedition got to Egypt.

• Frenchman Jean-François Champollion determined the phonetic values of the symbols in 1822.

• In those symbols, 33 ............ are used to depict various meanings.