The roughly 2,000 pictographs would help them to recall the chants. As in ancient Egypt, the glyphs were also used as rebuses (ie, for their sounds alone) to form new words. Over 20,000 of these ...

Ettawacappo has been learning from the rock paintings for many years, he said. The pictographs contain predictions of what would happen on the First Nation's territory, he said. Land-based ...