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A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Philip Seargeant, with additional material by David Hann. It was published in December 2018.

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Figure 1 (218690) Emoji as decorative feature: Architect - ‘Attika architekten’, Photographer - ‘Bart van Hoek’

Figure 2 (218416) Hieroglyphics: From Pixabay. Covered under Creative Commons licence CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Figure 3 (218696) The Lascaux Cave paintings: © Prof Saxx, cleared under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Figure 4 (218698) Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet: © Igor Dmitriev/123RF.com

Figure 11 (218700) Gedoen Maheux: © Gedoen Maheux

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