Punctuation please

Exploring the use of punctuation and some aspects thereof.

punctuationmustbeverymuchamodern inventionnodoubttheearlyformsofwriting usednaryadistinguishingmarkornotatallor theyusedotherdevicestodemarcatedifferent thoughtsandideasormeaningfulunitsthere oftofacilitatereading for example look at the cuneiform inscriptions on baked clay tablets of the ancient mesopotamians the hieroglyphs on the temple walls of ancient egypt and the pictograms on turtleshells of the ancient chinese in the ancient scripts if one character or symbol represented a word it was easy to make out the words making up a sentence but there was no special way to mark where one sentence began and another ended except by starting a new sentence in a new column as in ancient chinese written vertically down if on the other hand the characters or symbols made up a syllabary as in Japanese or an alphabet eg greek roman arabic cyrillic if there was no spacing to separate one word from another and if there was no means to separate phrases and clauses and sentences then the text would be one conflated mess of characters and symbols