Writing is considered to be one of the most important inventions of Humanity in all its universal history. Writing is a way that man has developed to express ideas and thoughts in a written way, that is to say on paper mainly but also on other supports of various kinds such as wood, clay, bark, earth and even today on varied digital and technological supports. Writing is one of the elements that have allowed man to develop more complex societies due to the abstraction necessary to carry it out.
It is estimated that the first forms of writing arose in the year 3000 BC and one of the first known writings was that developed by the Sumerians (people of Mesopotamia) known as cuneiform due to its wedge-shaped symbols. This writing was done on blocks of clay and probably had merely practical functions such as keeping accounts on available materials, etc. Throughout time and centuries the forms of writing became more complex and thus it was possible for the human being to develop writings that were ideographic, which means that they represent objects, people, situations, ideas through symbols.
Writing is always made up of a complex system of symbols that represent not only ideas but also words or sounds that can be read and expressed. These symbols together are known as alphabets. The importance of writing in this sense is that it allowed human beings to leave documents about their reality that could later be understood and decoded by later generations. Without writing it is likely that all that information that comes from antiquity is largely lost.
Writing has many functions beyond communicating ideas and access to it is currently related to the notion of equality. This is so because for centuries the reading and comprehension of written texts (as well as writing itself) were reserved for the privileged sectors of society. It would be only in the middle of the 19th century when most societies could access this type of knowledge and skill.
