A recently discovered cave painting in Indonesia reveals that humans were telling stories and portraying them through rock art at least 44,000 years ago (George,
2019). It seems the art of telling a story through more than one media platform, or transmedia storytelling, to use the contemporary coinage introduced by media scholar
Henry Jenkins was familiar to the ancients as it is to us living in the digital age.
Jenkins (2006) states that: A transmedia story unfolds across multiple media platforms, with each new text
making a distinctive and valuable contribution to the whole. In the ideal form of transmedia storytelling, each medium does what it does best – so that a story might
be introduced in a film, expanded through television, novels, and comics; its world might be explored through gameplay or experienced as an amusement park
attraction. (pp. 97-98)