Visual rhetoric made manifest by ancient Egypt. The use of images to convey meaning was used by the ancient Egyptians some 6000 years ago BC. Hieroglyphic writing is visual rhetoric. " Hieroglyphics is an ancient Egyptian script and a premier example of a medium that combines word and image to convey meaning. "
Hieroglyph's utilize geometry. Circles, triangles, and other various shapes can be found. The monuments house pictorials including eye's, animals, beasts (know and unknown), to allude to, represent, and showcase various messages. A London based university hosted by an institution of archelogy held a virtual conference. Amr El Hawary, University of Cairo, termed Egyptian hieroglyph script "the visual speech of Heart." (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/events/2021/nov/rethinking-visual-aesthetics-ancient-egyptian-writing)
Aristotle has the Aristotelian triangle. The writings of Charles S. Peirce, the great original thinker, details a "doctrine of signs in relation to the external world they represent. He describes a universal triad that exists for the dissemination of information through language..."
Visual rhetoric is older than the written word of the infamous Bible.
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