The Fabulous Story of the Invention of Writing.
Threshold| N° d'inventaire | 23296 |
| Format | 14 x 20 |
| Détails | 307 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782021464122 |
"This book is not a book about ancient Greek, nor about the alphabet. It is a story, about an invention, the greatest in the world." Silvia Ferrara Why did man begin to write? How and where did this revolution take place? These are the mysteries that Silvia Ferrara lifts the veil on. To do this, she takes us on a journey through time and space as if into the twists and turns of the human mind. Here, she draws up a fascinating inventory of still unsolved scripts; there, she traces the multiple appearances of writing in history. For everything suggests that it was discovered and then erased, without leaving a trace, on several occasions. Its birth in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC would have been only one occurrence among many others. Caught up in a dizzying tale that takes us from Mexico to the shores of the Aegean Sea, from China to the Easter Islands, we follow step by step the progress of a research that has progressed considerably in recent decades. Enriched with illustrations, this Fabulous History... instructs us as much as it inspires us.
"This book is not a book about ancient Greek, nor about the alphabet. It is a story, about an invention, the greatest in the world." Silvia Ferrara Why did man begin to write? How and where did this revolution take place? These are the mysteries that Silvia Ferrara lifts the veil on. To do this, she takes us on a journey through time and space as if into the twists and turns of the human mind. Here, she draws up a fascinating inventory of still unsolved scripts; there, she traces the multiple appearances of writing in history. For everything suggests that it was discovered and then erased, without leaving a trace, on several occasions. Its birth in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC would have been only one occurrence among many others. Caught up in a dizzying tale that takes us from Mexico to the shores of the Aegean Sea, from China to the Easter Islands, we follow step by step the progress of a research that has progressed considerably in recent decades. Enriched with illustrations, this Fabulous History... instructs us as much as it inspires us.