Penguin Random House South Africa
History of Writing
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From cave paintings to copperplate, the story of writing is the story of civilization itself.
The History of Writing traces the evolution of writing from the first recorded laws to the digital languages powering today's computers, exploring and explaining the ways in which the written word has shaped cultures, driven scientific progress, and held societies together.
Discover how the earliest scripts developed into modern alphabets through Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Indus Valley seals, and Chinese oracle bones. Learn about different writing systems - from the Mayan glyphs and the Cherokee syllabary to the still-undeciphered Easter Island Rongorongo script. And marvel at some of the world's most important and beautiful manuscripts,...