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This document provides a history of writing and typography from early symbol art in cave paintings to the development of movable type. It discusses important milestones such as the earliest forms of pictographs and ideograms in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Phoenician alphabet which consolidated symbols, and the Greek expansion of the alphabet which included vowels. The Romans further developed the alphabet which influenced modern letterforms. Important medieval developments included illuminated manuscripts, t

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Micah Quist

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