picture writing
noun
the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
pictorial symbols forming a record or communication.
Origin of picture writing
First recorded in 1735–45
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Historical Examples of picture writing
The earliest Egyptian writing was that which is called hieroglyphic, or picture-writing.
History of ReligionAllan Menzies
This warlike message is a specimen of Indian picture-writing.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume IFriedrich Max Mller
In this time did the picture-writing change, or, indeed, was it ever identical?
Studies in Central American Picture-WritingEdward S. Holden
And yet this is the picture-writing of the Aztecs, with which the world has been so edified for centuries.
Mexico and its ReligionRobert A. Wilson
They corresponded with their kindred on the plains by picture-writing.
Petals Plucked from Sunny ClimesSylvia Sunshine
picture writing
noun
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