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History of Communication

3 sessions, in order

Writing was invented from scratch at least three separate times in human history. Words themselves evolve and share ancestors the way species do. And one lucky artifact was enough to unlock a language nobody could read for over a thousand years. Three sessions on how information survives across time.

1.L&C-6Scribes of Ancient SumerLanguage & Communication~22 minHow did humans invent writing? It happened independently at least three separate times, from pictures to alphabets.
2.L&C-5Word ArchaeologistsLanguage & Communication~21 minWhy do so many languages share suspiciously similar words? Language families, and tracing words back to a common ancestor.
3.L&C-7Code-Breaking ArchaeologistsLanguage & Communication~23 minHow did we ever learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs? One artifact, and the decoding that cracked a dead language.