The ancient Civilizations created different shapes and forms to communicate between themselves. They created drawings of things, like people, animals to write a history of incidents. Also, they wrote the different sciences through these shapes and drawings. Here we can see drawings by the ancient pharaohs and the Mayan numbers. We are today trying to read these drawings to be able to know more about these ancient civilizations.
Your post reminded me of my visit to Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico to see the pyramids built by the indigenous people there (I think they were called the Mixtecas). The tour guide told us that the rock faces we were looking at (that had carved images of people) were carved with the purpose of documenting various medical abnormalities. Anyway, I wanted to mention it because, in Oaxaca, I was struck by how stylized those medical images were and how different those same kinds of educational/documentary images are now. In researching ancient cultures I think one of the most interesting things is to understand how they stylized their images, and how much of that stylization was based on the available technology and how much was based on cultural aesthetics.
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