These incredible pictorial alphabet designs look like artistic madness, but they were actually used historically as mnemonic devices to help people memorize their letters. If you are a font fiend ...

The ancient Egyptians drew pictures of jackals, jugs and feathers to represent sounds, not ideas—less direct than Hangul, but much like our present-day alphabet. Even the seemingly abstract ...

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Some signs were clearly related to hieroglyphs, yet they were simpler than the beautiful pictorial Egyptian script on the temple walls. The Petries recognized the signs as an alphabet, though ...