Choose the correct answer:

The earliest signs to denote words through pictures

is the answer because pictograph is a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. They were used as the first known form of writing. They were discovered from Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

a) is not the answer because logographic is the written character of a word

c) is not the answer because by definition, “ideographic is something that uses a symbol to describe it without a word or sound.”

d) is not the answer because stratigraphic images are used in geology which is concerned with the study of rock layers (strata).