Writing is a means of fixing human thought and language. Without writing there would be no book. How did people communicate before the alphabet was invented? The young researchers gathered in the Book Museum to study the history of writing.
Tens of thousands of years ago there was a few types of primitive writing. The children were able to try out different ways of capturing and transmitting information. They guessed a substantive message and expressed hypotheses on its content. With nodular writing ("quipu"), the boys and girls recorded the plans for the day and made mathematical calculations. The attendees drew pictograms and then decrypted messages to each other. The kids reflected on the benefits of logographic and phonetic writing (hieroglyphics and letters) and joined the study of the language and literature of the ancient Egyptians. The children also learned about ancient schools, a hard work of scribes, and tried to write on wax tablets.
The third-graders of gymnasium № 74 named after Maslenikov in Minsk at classes on the origins and development of writing.
We are pleased to invite schoolchildren to attend classes offered by the project “On a Visit to Books”.
