Epilogue
My concluding talk will review the unity and diversity of writing over more than five millennia from its ancient origins to today, as discussed by the conference’s speakers. In doing this, I shall also draw on my books about writing:
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms,
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Undeciphered Scripts,
The Indus: Lost Civilization,
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris,
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-François Champollion,
and The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young.
