Название: The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts, UK Edition
Автор: Silvia Ferrara
Издательство: Picador
ISBN: 1529064759
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 10,1 МБ
Язык: Английский
This book tells the story of our greatest invention. Or, it almost does. Almost, because while the story has a beginning – in fact, it has many beginnings, not only in Mesopotamia, 3,100 years before the birth of Christ, but also in China, Egypt and Central America – and it certainly has a middle, one that snakes through the painted petroglyphs of Easter Island, through the great machines of empires and across the desks of inspired, brilliant scholars, the end of the story remains to be written.