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Chercheurs d’artTechnical details
40 pages, paperback, 15 x 18.5 cm, 12 color and black-and-white illustrations.
Publication date
1996Period
Near eastern antiquitiesISBN French2-7118-3508-1
French only
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Co-publisher(s)
Réunion des Musées Nationaux
As their exchanges increased, humans realized that memory alone would not suffice, and that they had to keep a written trace of history. Writing emerged around 3500 BC in Mesopotamia and some 500 years later in Egypt. This book is an invitation to discover the various systems of signs, based on the Louvre collections.