When did mankind begin making formal plans, designs and drawings before beginning to build their beautiful and massive buildings and structures. We have the writing (hieroglyphics) of Egyptians dating back to 4000 BC that tell wonderful stories of their lives and times. In the New World the pre-Mayan and Mayan cultures also used hieroglyphics to illustrate and describe life. However, little can be found that suggests these civilizations created drawings and plans for their building, structures, and cities. Is this possible? Were they that skilled craftsmen?
This video quickly scans and highlights how ancient hieroglyphics and graphics has morphed it way into engineering drawings and graphics, and today is largely done using 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Computer-aided Design (CAD) systems.
This video is approximately 10 minutes in length.
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