The History of Advertising

Advertising has been a way of sharing ideas and getting the “word out” about products and/or services from the beginning of time, or at least since we have been trying to communicate.  The first signs of advertisement can be dated back almost 25,000 year ago on the walls of the caves in the hills of France.  These were Stone Age people advertising the hunting prowess to their fellow hunters.  Moving ahead in time to Babylon around 3500 B. C., sketches where drawn on soft clay tablets and set with a runner to advertise to the neighboring clans letting them know what they had to trade or other descriptive information.

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