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The Greatest Invention : A History Of The World In Nine Mysterious Scripts
Paperback Edition: 1
The invention of writing allowed humans to create a record of their lives and to persist past the limits of their lifetimes. In the shadows and swirls of ancient inscriptions, we can decipher the stories they sought to record, but we can also tease out the timeless truths of human nature, of our ceaseless drive to connect, create and be remembered. The Greatest Invention chronicles an uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research and the faint, fleeting echo of writing's future. With Professor Silvia Ferrara, we touch the knotted, coloured strings of the Incan khipu and consider the case of the Phaistos disk. Ferrara takes us to the cutting edge of decipherment, where high powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer's eye, and further still, to gaze at the outline of writing's future.
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Publication date : 2023-09-12
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in the UK, History, Inventions & Inventors