Where does writing come from? Inventing and deciphering ancient scripts

The invention of writing is an opaque phenomenon, as are all origins, as are all things remote and detached from the present, embedded in the deepest recesses of time. 

To understand how it was born we must go back more than 5000 years, and travel thousands of kilometers between China, Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Mayan civilisations, and end our journey on Easter Island, where a writing system seems to have been invented from zero. But not even that is enough, we have to go even further back in time, to understand how the first signs were created, and how these tell us about our imagination, our visual perception and the relationship with what surrounds us. Writing is not only the greatest invention in the world, but also a kaleidoscope to understand it and to better understand ourselves. However, there are still ancient scripts that we cannot read and decipher, and we will discover how state-of-the-art research can solve these problems and by doing so, reconstruct the history of the written word, globally.

Reception to follow.