picture writing

The Quiches were acquainted with a kind of picture-writing, and possessed records in which myth glided into history.

You will ask, how could the Chinese have built up a great intellectual fabric from mere picture writing?

In spite of its age, the first part that unrolled showed clear and strong picture writing, in bright colors.

The signs are, of course, later than the picture-writing of the hieroglyph, and also later than the linear script suited to stone.

I've sure heard a heap about that picture writing, and what fun scouts have trying to make out what it all means.