The Greatest Invention - A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention - the art of writing.

About the author

Silvia Ferrara, author of The Greatest Invention, is a Professor of Aegean civilization at the University of Bologna. She studied at University College London and the University of Oxford and, after several years as a researcher in Archeology and Linguistics at Oxford, she returned to Italy. She has taught at University College London, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and the Sapienza University of Rome.

Summary

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention – the art of writing.

Foreword

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention – the art of writing.

Additional text

Silvia Ferrara is enviably expert in an enviably attractive and important field - early scripts and their decipherment or (as cryptographers would have it) decoding. Dr Ferrara sheds swathes of light on how we developed writing systems throughout the world, and her own specialism, Cypro-Minoan, reveals that two islands, Cyprus and Crete, are critical to one truly "great invention", the advancement of human civilisation.

Product details

• Authors: Silvia Ferrara, Ferrara Silvia
• Assisted by: Todd Portnowitz (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2022
• EAN: 9781529064759
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-6475-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Ancient / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Inventions, Ancient World, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Inventions & inventors, Inventions and inventors, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory