The greatest invention : a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts / Silvia Ferrara ; translated from the Italian by Todd Portnowitz.
Language: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022Edition: First American editionDescription: viii, 289 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0374601623
- 9780374601621
- Grande invenzione. English.
- P211 .F42713 2022
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Includes bibliographical references.
Behind the scenes. Stories ; Nature -- Undeciphered scripts. Islands ; Crete ; Cyprus ; Easter Island -- Invented scripts. Cities ; Before the pharaohs ; Between two rivers ; Chinese turtles ; Across the ocean ; End of story -- Experiments. Tradition ; Solitary inventors ; Isolated branches ; Social inventors -- Discoveries. Where to begin ; How to decipher -- The great vision. First ; Afterward ; Tomorrow ; Postscriptum.
"Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the art of writing"-- Provided by publisher.
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