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Introduction
Introduction
My project is about some of our earliest known written languages, and the myths that accompany their entrance into the world. The evolution of written language not only provided the world with a means of storing and transmitting information, but likely changed the very structure of the human brain as we developed the capacity for processing written information. Doubly fascinating for me!
I chose to use Twine this semester as the storyboard, and I highly recommend exploring the Prologue before jumping right into the stories.
With that said, you're playing as a tired English professor grading papers who takes a nap while wondering whether his degree in Anthropology was worth it. I had fun with this! Hope you do too!
Limestone Kish tablet from Sumer with pictographic writing; may be the earliest known writing, 3500 BC. Ashmolean Museum. Wikimedia Commons
Photograph of section of the Zayit Stone, 10th century BCE: (right-to-left) the letters waw, he, het, zayin, tet. Earliest known specimen of the Hebrew alphabet.
Maya script depicting the creator god Itzamna, found in the Dresden Codex, pages 10 and 11.
Runic letters etched into the 4th century AD Einang Stone, the first known inscription bearing the word "rune" and the oldest standing runestone today. The inscription "(Ek go) oagastiz runo fahido" was translated by Erik Moltke to read "(I, Go)dguest painted/wrote this runic inscription."
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