Early South Indian Palaeography c8.s2.3

c8.s2.3

³³ “The ideas of writing and drawing were identical in prehistoric Egypt and in early Greece, as it is shown by the Egyptian word *s-sh* and by Greek *graphein*, which mean both ‘writing’ and ‘drawing’”. (Diringer, *ibid.*, p. 25). “As far as history reaches, in every direction, the beginnings of writing seem to have been laid in pictorial art”. (W.A. Mason, *op. cit.*, p. 40.) The remarkable drawing and paintings of cave men of central Europe (who lived at the close of the last glacial period in Europe) which abound in artistic excellence, are frankly regarded as picture-writing by Dr. Arther J. Evans who interprets them as records of events.