Communication is everything in this modern world. Communication is how things get told, interpreted, and documented. Think about what the world would be like without communication. If languages, code, symbols, writing, and anything that can be interpreted and contain information did not exist, the world would likely be very isolated. When languages were first conceived, they mostly entailed grunting and random sounds. Then it developed into something with words and intellectual meaning behind them. Then the words developed into something more complex, coming with symbols, letters, and pictograms. Like early variants of Chinese or Latin. But a very important roster of pictograms from Egypt that changed everything we know about early language and history from so long ago; Hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics are pictures/symbols that represent a sound. The higher class of egyptians (mainly the royal family and priests) used the hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics were officially used around 3100 BC. And they ended in 391 shortly after the rise of Christianity. The development of Hieroglyphics by the Egyptians had a significant impact in that it helped with communication, and telling stories.
Picture sitting in your room and your parents are reading a story to you. How can they read it if there are no symbols to interpret, understand, and speak them out loud. For us it would be letters on paper, but for the Egyptians, it was pictograms on a slab or papyrus. For their gods, it was important to have their information and story on display. Storytelling is something used to give information, teach, help with knowing things around you. They embraced that and expanded on how life worked and how the gods influenced it. There were also simple stories like how they would have for children. Stories were very important because they were the only way old information could be told.
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