writing-systems
writing-systems
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- writing & publishing
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As traditions and legends could be written out on papyrus, people were freed from the burden of remembering the past and were increasingly able to devote more of their cognitive energies to forming new ideas. Literacy…
- books & reading
stream post
… writing was born only fifty-four hundred years ago in the Fertile Crescent, and the alphabet itself is only thirty-eight hundred years old. These time spans are a mere trifle in evolutionary terms. Evolution thus did…