B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for June 08, 2016

If they’re called hieroglyphs, how come they are down so low?

Modern Day hieroglyphs? :-) ;-) >:-P

I wonder if Duolingo covers this?

Looks like he can see the far future. But, then, I guess the guy with the wheel is a visionary, too.

Nobody mentioned Rosetta Stone!??

Emojis!

What? No Esperanto?

It all boils down to E=MC^2

The first graffiti. Translation: Kilroy was here.

We’re screwed…

It says: “Walk like an Egyptian.”

Writing as a second language — speech being the first — really was the future. It made it possible to pass down information for generations without depending on memory, good listening throughout or even proximity..It is reasonable to think some used to be smarter than we are now because they somehow managed to transmit so much information down through time with only oral means..Most of us nowadays are insulted when someone even suggests we might want to memorize something. (Even though we do by accident, usually.).Also, notice the flexibility, despite poor punctuation and writing and speleng, most understand what we are writing.

hieroglyphs were used from 3300 b.c. to 400 a.d., quite a long run. It remains to be seen if our Roman alphabet will endure that long

Remember ibex before jackal except after ank.