Beja: Exhibition "History of Writing in the Lower Alentejo" is now opened.
To 25 February is reflected in the Visigoth of Beja Regional Museum the exhibition "History of Writing in the Lower Alentejo".
The Beja Regional Museum and the Municipality of Beja inaugurated today, day 6 Feb., by 18:00h, the Visigothic Nucleus of Beja Regional Museum (Santo Amaro Church), the exhibition "History of Writing in the Lower Alentejo".
This exhibition is an initiative of the Lower Alentejo Museums Network, integrating the Intermunicipal Community of the Lower Alentejo (CIMB), and aims to show the evolution of writing, this territory, throughout history.
In southwestern peninsular writing develops more than 2500 years of which, its genesis, this is almost entirely in the funerary monuments. The first writing systems arise in the East for over 5000 year old. However, our alphabet has its origin in the Phoenician, created about 3000 year old, which allowed the development there, especially in southern Alentejo and Algarve, a writing designated as "Southwest writing".
The Roman Empire introduces major changes and leaves important marks, not only in archaeological remains and objects, as well as in writing with the introduction of Latin characters. Later, the extension of Islamic rule to the Al-Andalus left important traces that are not limited only to the supports in stone but are also found in other materials such as ceramics and bone, with most of the texts marked by a strong religious content, transcribing the passages often Koran.
No Modern World, writing wins new media and the press to-invent allowing revolutionize the dissemination of information and replication of documents. However, over the centuries XVI, XVII, XVIII e XIX, most documents, Public and private, manuscripts are still. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is gradually discloses the typewriter and writing gains greater uniformity and speed of production is watching, in the second half of the twentieth century, the tremendous technological advancement where the material support gives way to virtual support.
The exhibition will be open to the public until 25 February 2018, from Monday to Friday, the 9:30to h 12:30h e the 14:00to h 17:00h.
