This publication explores how the writings developed in Egypt, displaying the different phases of inventing and evolution of writings in Egypt. It also targets different cohorts aiming to increase the culture awareness in the community.

This book was published in the occasion of the Inauguration of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 16 October 2002. it is complementary to the special exhibition on “the Wall” concerning the granite cladding of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina building.

This book is considered the first of its kind in its field of specialization published in the Arabic language. Researchers, based their research on a large amount of recent, practical references in the field of languages and their geographic distribution and subsequently tracking their emergence, disappearance, transformation and development.

The core of the thesis is the compilation and study of a group of monuments, many are published for the first time and difficult of access. These are presented with a brief general survey of the sites of known archaeological contexts of the monuments.

The first book in this series, entitled “Diwan of Arabic Calligraphy in Egypt during the Muhammed Ali Dynasty”, was issued in the framework of a new series of books entitled “Studies of Contemporary Arabic Calligraphy”; one of the scientific publications the publishing of which Bibliotheca Alexandrina is concerned.