Moving forward, consider the ancient Egyptians. Their stories were told in great detail on the walls of tombs, and through other written records. In fact, so much attention was paid to detail that an ancient recipe for beer was found and recreated with little trouble. Thousands of years ago, the deserts of New Mexico came alive with the voices of the Anasazi Indians. Ceremonies in the great kivas brought stories to them in visions.
Religion also tells a story.
Regardless of what you believe, each religion tells its own story. For generations, many cultures have handed stories down, with each new storyteller adding his or her few chapters to the epic. Through the millennia, the amazing progression in the creation of stories has made story telling an art form as unique as the individual telling the story. Simply put, a story is the communication of ideas or events from one person or group of people to another person or group of people. These ideas are story telling in a basic form.