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Before the Alphabet: Journey to the origins of writing in Mesopotamia
Nearly 200 works of Ligabue Collection on display for the first time – including tablets and extraordinary seals dating back more than 5,000 years ago – recall the great civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia, now an inaccessible territory.
Scripta manent warned the Romans confirming authority and the value over time of a written text, Maktub “is written,” say the Arabs. The birth of writing, which occurred almost simultaneously in Egypt and Mesopotamia around 3200 BC, marks one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of civilization and revolutionary, critical to the transmission of knowledge dynamics and to the knowledge of antiquity.
The exhibition which is held in one of the offices of the Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Palazzo Loredan in Venice, from 20 January to 25 April 2017 – promoted by the Foundation Giancarlo Ligabue chaired by Inti Ligabue, edited by professor Frederick Mario Fales (University of Udine), one of the most famous assyriologist and scholars of the Ancient Near East – takes us almost after almost 6,000 years , in the Land of the Two Rivers, in a universe of signs, symbols, engravings but also of images and visual stories witness the birth and the overwhelming spread of cuneiform writing, revealing at the same time the social, economic and religious center of ancient Mesopotamia.
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