Addressed to 3rd grade –7th grade students (2015-2018)
The story of writing and book creation is presented in an interactive way, starting from prehistoric clay tablets to contemporary electronic tablets. The program features a screening of the timeline of the history of writing, so that students have to chance to time travel across the places and civilizations where the types and materials for writing were first used. In a similarly interactive way, by using the equipment of the Library’s Maintenance Laboratory, the students will come to contact with the onset of book creation (manuscript and printed) and finally, they will get to use the modern electronic tablets of the Library.
It is an engaging program that gives students the opportunity to get in touch with the language of the Mycenaeans and to decrypt Linear B writing scripts, like Michael Ventris and John Chadwick.
Moreover, to serve the purpose of this program, the Library organizes on the Library’s ground floor, a showcase museum where the materials of writing from Prehistory (cuneiform writing) to modern e-tablets are displayed, in a chronological order. Through casts, we display the clay tablets from cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing to Linear A writing script (the Disc of Phaistos) and Linear B writing scripts.