30 mars 2022
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ILARA, « Writing Systems in the Ancient World », ILARA - Institut des langues rares, ID : 10.58079/q3al
Coordination: Andréas Stauder (EPHE – PSL) Writing was invented, independently, in several places and in always different contexts: in Mesopotamia and Egypt at the end of the 4th millennium, in the Aegean world and in China in the 2nd millennium, in the valley of the Indus in the 3rd millennium, in Central America in the 1st millennium BC. In many ways, the various alphabetic scripts derive from these early written traditions. As much as linguistic notation tools, scripts are modes of vis...