Historians are able to better understand ancient civilizations using several methods. They interpret art, architecture, findings, and other objects, to analyze how these cultures lived their daily lives. Historians rely on their findings to be able to interpret cultures. Ancicent civilizvations devoeloped a simple way to help historians understand their cultures, by using art to display their civilizations. These pictures of art, are actually how these ancient civilizations communicated witoh each other to one another. What Hhistorians considered art, had been the creation of a writing system. The greatest civilivzations, from as early as 5000 BC, develolped a style of writing that allowed them to keep records, that used pictures to illustrate all different things; from religion, and social class, andto daily chores. The ancient civilivzations developed a system of law, a number system for trade, and a record keeping system. Historians are able to study ancient cultures from Mesoptomtamian, Chinesea, and Egyptian ancient civilivzations based on the systems created from their writing styles..