Sending MESSAGES RECEIVING Messages
Messages ranged from short and sometimes vague modes of communication to detailed ones. Light signals were used across the sky to give quick and urgent messages. The Ancient Greeks also borrowed a concept that was developed in 2000 BCE by the Sumerians in which pigeons delivered messages. Complete and detailed messages were later accomplished by using tablets containing the alphabet. The historian Polybius (203-120 BCE) described the system in which two parties had tablets arranged in the same order and would know which letters to use to decode messages based on the use of a signalman's torch.
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Many of the ancient ways of communicating in Greece are still half being used today. Such as the Light signals with torches are now being used as morse code. Perhaps between lighthouses and passing ships.
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When they used the torch method to signal each other, the other party would decode the message depending on how many times the torch was raised and at what angle dictated which letter. The light signals were sort of the same. Special trained pigeons would take the messages to the other party.
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