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

This explores the creation of written language through a journey across time and geography, exploring the mysteries of undeciphered scripts, such as the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript. It also explores the Inca quipu, turtle shells, and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions. She also observes Sequoyah's single-handed invention of a Cherokee script, and the cutting edge of decipherment using high-powered laser scanners. It also chronicles a previously uncharted journey, filled with past brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a glimpse of writing's future.

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