Their symbolic system of picture writing is positively the oldest and first form of recording ideas the world ever knew.
With the ancient Mesopotamians, Persians and Copts, they practice the old art of ideographic, or picture writing.
The divisions were perfect and regular, and enabled them to denote, in their scrolls of picture writing, the chronology of the month, and of the Tlalpilli, or period of thirteen years.
It is well established, however, that they possessed a system of picture writingin which each word was represented by a symbol.
This people possess also, the art of picture writing, in a degree which denotes that they have been, either more careful, or more fortunate, in the preservation of this very ancient art of the human race.
After our arrival at St. Anthony's Falls, it was found that this system of picture writing was as familiar to the Dacotah, as we had found it among the Algonquin race.
They possessed a system of picture writing almost as developed as the contemporary writing of the Sumerians, but quite different in character.
Their skill in architecture and architectural ornamentation did not enable them to build such cities as Mitla and Palenque, and their “picture writing” was a much ruder form of the graphic art than the phonetic system of the Mayas and Quichés.
The walls of this room were covered, from the bottom to the top of the arched ceiling, with painted designs similar to those seen in the Mexican “picture writing.
It was common also among the Aztecs, but they used “picture writing.
In South America, also, there is said to have been a nation who cultivated the art of picture writing, the Panos, on the river Ucayale.
He had mastered the elements of picture writing, beyond which hardly the wisest of his race progressed.
Again it must be said that pictorial writing is not confined to image writing as is usually implied by the phrase “picture writing” but applies just as well to objects.
This very simple and natural proceeding has in it the germ of picture writing,—is indeed picture writing.
It is not intended by this that they make no use of picture writing, but that these records are not preserved.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picture writing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
