By Dr. Ahmed Amin Selim, Ancient History Professor and Head of Egyptology and Islamic Archeology department.
This lecture tackles the connotations of expressions and inscriptions during prehistoric Egypt and some parts of the old Near East, and refers to the connotations in the areas of human activity in terms of religious, intellectual, economic, social and reflected in the nature of environmental conditions.
It will be addressing some inscriptions on stones, pottery and sculptures in Egypt and pictorial illustrations and paintings of old seals in Iraq, and pottery in Iran, and the paintings in Asia Minor and Syria, and how these drawings were the first stages of mans expression in the writings found in subsequent centuries.