The story of how we got our alphabets
From intricate and beautiful Egyptian hieroglyphs, to wedge-shaped cuneiform imprints from ancient Mesopotamia – our ancestors developed many ways of recording their thoughts and information.
Read the full article and watch the slideshow on the BBC News Magazine website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine
Dr Clackson is talking at the Cambridge University Festival of Ideas - Adventures of a Palaeolinguist on 24 October
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