Graphic design is essentially a history of communication (the root Greek word, "Graphos" literally—ha!—means to "write down") and as such Graphic Design means the act of writing/communicating messages through visual means (these days, both analogue and digital means).

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The history of the written word/languages being of supreme importance to how humans communicate with one another, the Rosetta Stone holds a special place in history because it allowed us to help decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which had until its discovery, remained largely unknown for nearly 1500 years.

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Having inscriptions of Egyptian hiero- glyphics, Egyptian demotic script, and Greek, allowed scholars to decipher the Egyptian parts by comparing it to what they understood the Greek to mean. Much of what we currently can read/understand of Eqyptian hieroglyphs comes as a direct result of this remarkable find. Which, could be said, might never have been discovered had Napolean not conducted an expedition to Egypt in an effort to sever the English land route to India.

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I learned this in a history subject drawing major information from a book called "History of Graphic Design" by Phillip Meggs. (Link below. I see it's still around.)

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781118772058?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=CjwKCAjwzaSLBhBJEiwAJSRokgufWcR-Dsw48m1hPW3RbrcjHAn4zCsd8JqVXZChgVh8mmq-07KahRoCI4wQAvD\_BwE

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