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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man, X

Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man, X
In the tradition of the international bestseller The Universal History of Numbers, John Man has written a wonderfully engaging narrative that could be called the " universal history of letters." It illustrates how our alphabet came to be. How it was influenced by scribes as well as kings, cultures ancient and extant, politics, religion, even mythology. How so many adventures came to accompany its evolution. How truly unique a prize it is. Alpha Beta weaves its way from man’ s earliest scratches on bone to the first wedge-shaped marks in Mesopotamian clay, from the Pharaoh’ s hieroglyphics to the Torah’ s innovative characters, from Homer’ s epics to the lost culture of the Etruscans, all the way to the Internet explosion. What surfaces is an intriguing blend of characters, controversies, and stories, including that of a perplexing picture disk found on Crete, a robbery in the Egyptian desert, the invention of Cyrillic— — and even a continuing mystery surrounding missing head of British archeologist William Flinders Petrie. We are ever reminded of the alphabet’ s power. The Romans used it to display their strength, the Greeks to capture their myths, the Israelites to define their god. Ultimately, Alpha Beta offers an extraordinary rediscovery of the alphabet’ s vital contribution to our sense of identity. For while the Western world of today is divided by languages, it remains largely united by the alphabet. And, as Man makes clear, from pre-alphabetic systems to the recording of human speech, from the oral traditions of our ancestors to the literacy of our children, the deceptive simplicity of " ABC" holds within it a rich,potent, and passionate history.



Egyptian mythology - Egyptian mythology or Egyptian religion is the succession of tentative beliefs held by the people of Egypt for over three thousand years, prior to major exposure to Christianity and Islam.

List of Egyptian mythology topics - Articles related to Egyptian mythology.

Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Certain numbers were considered sacred, holy, or magical by the ancient Egyptians, particularly 2, 3, 4, 7, and their multiples and sums.

Apis (Egyptian mythology) - For other uses, see Apis (Disambiguation).



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