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The first communication between humans via images was probably cave drawing. However, the first writing that did not mean exactly what was portrayed was hieroglyphs, which was basically pictures with a predetermined meaning. Later, the Sumerians, who lived in what is now Iraq, transformed their hieroglyphs into a set of dashes and lines called cuneiform. The Phoenicians of Palestine invented twenty-three characters that gradually evolved into the majority of the English alphabet. So the answer really depends on what you are asking.

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