Frog Amulet. Date: c. 1540-1296 BC / Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18. Medium: carnelian. Now on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In Ancient Egypt the frog was a symbol of mortal life and fertility, Heqet being the goddess of child-birth.
reading about lukasa, or memory boards, which originated in the Luba kingdom.
the Mbudye group of the Luba state would create and use these tablets to spiritually recount history. incredible form of data preservation and visualization.