12/28/2022 0 Comments Magic taggerThe ancient Romans carved graffiti on walls and monuments, examples of which also survive in Egypt. Located near a mosaic and stone walkway, the graffiti shows a handprint that vaguely resembles a heart, along with a footprint, a number, and a carved image of a woman's head. Local guides say it is an advertisement for prostitution. The first known example of "modern style" graffiti survives in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus (in modern-day Turkey). Safaitic dates from the first century BC to the fourth century AD. The only known source of the Safaitic language, an ancient form of Arabic, is from graffiti: inscriptions scratched on to the surface of rocks and boulders in the predominantly basalt desert of southern Syria, eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. Use of the word has evolved to include any graphics applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism. The term graffiti originally referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, and such, found on the walls of ancient sepulchres or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or at Pompeii.
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