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The walls of caves and canyons reveal the artistic skills of some of the early tribes of men. Most artists, however, did not transcend their picture-making and build a true writing plan. Then, about five thousand years ago, the Egyptians invented a new way of writing (called hieroglyphics ), which is where Mr. Irwin’s romantic story begins.From the land of the Pharaohs, the reader is transported to the ancient empire of Babylonia, where the Chaldeans developed cuneiform (wedge-shaped) writing and made their marks with a special stylus of hard wood or bone on clay tablets.Like the blooming of a plant, and just as colorful, the story of writing continues to unfold to modern times, constantly revealing new wonders. Here are scribes in monasteries copying the four million letters of the Bible on parchment, producing beautiful, illuminated manuscripts. Here are the Chinese following the procedure of the paper wasp, though perhaps unwittingly, and making paper.Here too is the fascinating evolution of our numbers and signs.

Author

Keith Gordon Irwin

Publisher

Viking Press

Published

1956

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670604821