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The Pharaoh's Treasure: The Origin of Paper and the Rise of Western Civilization

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Availability:In StockContributor:John GaudetPublish date:2020-02-11Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643133423ISBN-10:164313342XUPC:9781643133423Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Civilization, AnthropologyBook Topic:Egypt, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCFATKVSE4

For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the rock walls of caves and coffin lids or carving on tablets. But it was with the advent of papyrus paper when the ability to record and transmit information exploded, allowing for an exchanging of ideas from the banks of the Nile throughout the Mediterranean--and the civilized world--for the first time in human history.

In The Pharaoh's Treasure, John Gaudet looks at this pivotal transition to papyrus paper, which would become the most commonly used information medium in the world for more than 4,000 years. Far from fragile, papyrus paper is an especially durable writing surface; papyrus books and documents in ancient and medieval times had a usable life of hundreds of years, and this durability has allowed items like the famous Nag Hammadi codices from the third and fourth century to survive.

The story of this material that was prized by both scholars and kings reveals how papyrus paper is more than a relic of our ancient past, but a key to understanding how ideas and information shaped humanity in the ancient and early modern world.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781643133423ISBN-10:164313342XUPC:9781643133423Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Civilization, AnthropologyBook Topic:Egypt, Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1618Product ID:SCFATKVSE4
Gaudet, John: - A Fulbright Scholar to both India and Malaya, John Gaudet is a writer and practicing ecologist. His early research on papyrus, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, took him to Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, and Ethiopia. A trained ecologist with a PhD from University of California at Berkeley, he is the author of Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World, and his writing has appeared in Science, Nature, Ecology, the Washington Post, Salon and the Huffington Post. He lives in McLean, Virgina.
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