Take a step back in time and discover the history of humanity's most fundamental building block.
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The ancestor of language
Genevieve von Petzinger
Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
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Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
Rajesh Rao
A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
Gregory Heyworth
How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts
Neil MacGregor
2600 years of history in one object
William Noel
Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
