Print

We had a lecture about print and its chronology. We learned that the history of printing goes back to the duplication of images by means of stamps in very early times. The use of round seals for rolling an impression into clay tablets goes back to early Mesopotamian civilization before 3000 BCE, where they are the most common works of art to survive, and feature complex and beautiful images. In both China and Egypt, the use of small stamps for seals preceded the use of larger blocks. In China, India and Europe, the printing of cloth certainly preceded the printing of paper or papyrus. The process is essentially the same - in Europe special presentation impressions of prints were often printed on silk until the seventeenth century. The development of printing has made it possible for books, newspapers, magazines, and other reading materials to be produced in great numbers, and it plays an important role in promoting literacy among the masses.
Basically we were told that it seems that if it is in print is true and factual, we were the asked to pass on a message that the lecturer told one student to another, after that last one who got the message had to repeat it out loud. it basically a game of broken phone, and in the end the original message ends up changed. this meant that verbal messages are not as reliable as printed one.