The creation of writing is a great discovery of mankind, equal to the taming of fire and the invention of the wheel. Despite the enormous achievements, scientific and technological progress in the field of accumulation, storage and transmission of information, to date no other system has been invented that is equal to writing and capable of performing these functions to the same extent. Writing, like money, was not invented by a certain people or person in a certain place and at a certain time. There are from 2,500 to 5,000 languages on Earth, of which only a little more than 100 have written language and literature. At different times, about 140 original writing systems arose in the world, but only about 40 have survived to this day... The history and prehistory of writing is equal to the history of our civilization. This is the story of the amazing development of human thought from the simplest forms to extremely complex abstract languages. Our book will tell you how writing developed. Read it and you will understand how good it is that we all know how to read today, how great it is that authors write books, and we can easily receive knowledge presented on the pages of textbooks, computer monitors, tablets and other media... Let's say thanks to writing for this! Because today we can easily put our thoughts into words and put it in writing, save it or share it with others...