The document discusses various aspects of writing throughout history including early written works like the Abu Salbikh Tablet from 2500 BCE and the Rosetta Stone from 1799 BCE. It then discusses different writing materials like papyrus and parchment. Key developments in writing technology are covered such as movable clay type in 1041 and the printing press in the 1450s. Views on the writing process from authors like Hemingway, Kerouac, Boyle, and Thompson are provided. Elements of good writing according to Strunk & White are listed at the end.
5. set in stone The Abu Salbikh Tablet Circa 2500 BCE A Sumerian âwisdomâ text in cuneiform. The oldest known copy of âInstructions of Shuruppak.â Found in southern Iraq, at the site of an small Sumerian city. Stored in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. Stolen during the Second Iraq War by looters.
7. Found in August, 1799 by Bouchard, near Rosetta, on the western mouth of the Nile River. Black basalt Deciphered by Jean-Francois Champollion in 1822 Greek, Demotic, and Heiroglyphics A gift to Ptolemy V, the Greek ruler of Egypt in the 2 nd century BCE, for favors he had given to Egyptian priests.
11. Papyrus A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and Boats.