The writing revolution: cuneiform to the Internet

The first IT revolution

Cuneiform: forgotten legacy of a forgotten people

Egyptian hieroglyphs and the quest for eternity

Chinese: a love of paperwork

Maya glyphs: calendars of kings

Linear B: the clerks of Agamemnon

Japanese: three scripts are better than one

Cherokee: Sequoyah reverse-engineers

The Semitic alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 years

The empire of Sanskrit

King Sejong's one-man renaissance

Greek serendipity

The age of Latin

The alphabet meets the machine.