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Why Reading Should Feel More Visual Long before humans relied on books, screens, blogs, documents, and text-heavy web pages, we communicated through pictures, symbols, marks, and visual storytelling. Across the world, ancient cave art shows that humans have used images to express meaning for tens of thousands of years. The Smithsonian notes that cave paintings provide evidence of complex and abstract thought in prehistoric people. Smithsonian: Earliest Discovered Cave Painting Ancient Egypt also gives us one of the most famous examples of visual communication: hieroglyphic writing. Britannica describes hieroglyphic writing as a system that uses characters in the form of pictures, where signs could represent objects, ideas, or sounds. Britannica: Hieroglyphic Writing The point is simple: humans have always understood the world visually. Text is powerful, but reading text is not effortless. A reader has to look at symbols, decode words, map those words to meaning, imagine the...