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white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html" href="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bl.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html"><H1 id="contentstart">Picture writing</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">Picture writing, also known as pictography, is one of the earliest forms of writing</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">pictograms</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">The Sumerians</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">created the earliest known pictograms in around 3200BC</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">known as cuneiform</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">combined pictograms and phonograms </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html">Egyptians were formulating their own system of pictorial signs known as hieroglyphics</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.bl.uk/img/2CBF65FE-7119-4DF8-B2C7-DD3902AEE792" alt="Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/why/ways1/picture1/picturewriting.html"><H3 xmlns:w="urn:www.microsoft.com/word" xmlns:st1="urn:www.microsoft.com/smarttags" xmlns:o="urn:www.microsoft.com/office">Pictograms can be used to communicate as quickly and simply as possible</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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