Script Revolution: Words That Conquered Time

ISBN-13: 9783565151530 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str.

Caleb Prescott

Opis

Journey through writing's 5000-year metamorphosis from Sumerian pictograms to global alphabets that birthed civilizations. Cuneiform wedges on clay tablets logged debts in 3200 BC Uruk, Egyptian hieroglyphs immortalized pharaohs via Rosetta breakthroughs, and Phoenician traders distilled 22 consonants around 1200 BC-sparking Greek vowels, Latin curls, and Arabic flourishes. Witness runes etching Viking sagas, Devanagari scripting Sanskrit epics, and Hangul's 1446 Korean genius blending sound blocks.Each era spotlights breakthroughs: Mayan glyphs decoding calendars, Cherokee syllabary's 1821 literacy explosion, and digital fonts evolving from Gutenberg's press to Unicode's 150,000 glyphs. Loaded with stroke evolutions, decipherment dramas like Champollion's hieroglyph hack, inscription photos, and cultural ripples on law, literature, empire. Spanning Mesopotamia to Silicon Valley, this visual saga reveals how symbols tamed chaos, spread knowledge, and wired the world-essential for linguists and history seekers.

Phoenician merchants carved 22 letters on coins in 1200 BC, birthing every modern alphabet from their sea-trading shorthand.