Neolithic counting tokens Counting with tally sticks and tokens The earliest way of writing down numbers was to carve notches in tally sticks, and this method spread from Africa all over Europe and [...]
Egyptian temple to Hathor at Serabit in the Sinai Early Writing Before about 1800 BC, all people in the world wrote using pictures that each stood for a word or a [...]
Maya writing on a page from the Madrid Codex Did the Maya invent writing themselves? It's possible that the Maya learned how to write from the Olmec, but there aren't any [...]
An Aztec book, or codex (ca 1500 AD) Aztec writing and the Maya The Aztec system of writing was very much like the Maya system. Probably the Aztec people learned how to write [...]
Book of the Dead Writing in Egypt goes back to pretty much the earliest writing anywhere. Nobody really knows yet whether the Egyptians figured out how to write for themselves. [...]
Some of the earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs (Abydos, ca. 3200 BC) Keeping records Soon after the Egyptian kings united Egypt into one country, about 3200 BC, they needed government officials [...]
Egyptian hieroglyphics project This is a project you can do inside the classroom, or on a rainy day. Look at hieroglyphs Show the children examples of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Explain that [...]
