TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferrara,Silvia
AU  - Portnowitz,Todd
TI  - The greatest invention: a history of the world in nine mysterious scripts 
SN  - 0374601623
AV  - P211 .F42713 2022
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Extinct languages
KW  - Inscriptions
KW  - History
KW  - Writing
N1  - 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
N2  - "Silvia Ferrara leads a code cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention-the art of writing"--
ER  -