The very symbols that I have used to write this description have a more fascinating past than almost anything you can imagine.

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Produced by Richard Marais

(0:00) Back to the Bronze Age

(3:22) Ancient Egypt

(9:48) The people of the Bronze Age

(14:07) The Homeric Epics

(15:57) Origin of the Turks

(16:39) Who had writing in the Bronze Age?

(20:49) Bronze Age Collapse

(29:24) Enter the Chinese

(30:11) Phoenicia saves our ass

(38:00) Greeks add vowels

(40:28) The Alphabet spreads

(45:30) The exceptions

(48:09) Epilogue