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30,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
These are murals or paints that are drawn or painted on the walls or rock surfaces of a cave. These are found in places such as France, Spain, North Africa and etc. Experts said that the paintings explain what happens in nature and as what they were doing such as hunting and farming. -
Period: 30,000 BCE to 1400
Prehistoric Age
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10,000 BCE
Petroglyphs
The first petroglyphs are created on hunter-gathering strategies. This is known as the first forms of mass media. -
7000 BCE
Pictographs
These are carved visual images of what people did at that moment based on what they saw. -
2200 BCE
Hieroglyphs
A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred writing") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs". -
2200 BCE
Cuneiform or Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform
One of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means “wedge shaped". -
1400
Wax Tablet
A wax tablet is a tablet made of wood and covered with a layer of wax, often linked loosely to a cover tablet, as a "double-leaved" diptych. It was used as a reusable and portable writing surface in Antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages. -
Padung Na Exams
January on the 2nd week
