TIL Writing in Egypt was 'invented' around 3250 BC to organise the distribution and storage of goods.
11d 18h ago by lemmy.world/u/Patnou in til from www.britishmuseum.org
In every place were writing was invented was done by accountants
How'd they do accounting before writing?
Tally systems and icons. It's from these icons that writing emerges.
China might be the exception, writing maybe emerges from divination rather than accounting. But maybe it goes accounting > divination > writing.