The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="The,Story,of,Writing,Alphabets,,Hieroglyphs,Pictograms"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">01-10-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs & Pictograms</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_RbQYMgvOQghFazCXvKHD_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Times): If one studies all writing systems, ancient and modern – from Mesopotamian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mayan glyphs to Chinese characters, Arabic script and the English alphabet – it turns out that they share a single underlying principle: they mix phonetic symbols with logograms. That some of these logograms are pictographic, while most are abstract, is really a distracting sideshow; it is the mixture that matters. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article2551945.ece" target="blank">entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article2551945.ece</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show