I just read
this post on how Ancient Egyptians must have understood Object Oriented systems by Rockford Lhotka. Rockford has (arguably)
the book on Business Objects in .NET. He's also been on
DotNet Rocks.
After reading his blog entry, I found myself truly laughing out loud. I was imagining a bunch of Council Leaders in ancient Egypt sitting around in a meeting trying to capture all of this in UML. Maybe you could draw a correlation to UML and hieroglyphics.
Perhaps they were sitting around in a JAD session trying to fine-tune the roles and responsibilities. Which leads to the real question: Who was the PHB in this scenario? At any rate, it's definitely worth a read.