Tropical paintings

Tropical paintings
Venice paintings
As civilization developed, and people began gathering in towns and cities, it became impossible to remember who had made their donation to the temple or who owned which piece of land. "It was an economic need based on the evolution of society," says Billie Jean Collins, a lecturer on Near Eastern studies at Emory University in Atlanta.So ancient man developed a series of pictures to help — and that became writing. A Unique AnniversaryFive thousand years later, we have automobiles and derivatives trades to keep track of, Shakespeare to read, and an anniversary to celebrate.This week, Iraq is marking the 5,000th anniversary of the invention of the written word with an international conference. Historians and archaeologists