Humans began to write over 5,000 years ago. On this tour, see artifacts with writing in many languages and writing systems: cuneiform, hieroglyphs, hieratic, Demotic, Greek, and Latin. Learn who could write and how, the kinds of information that was recorded, and the materials they were recorded on.

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