Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
New York : Abbeville Press, c1999.
Description
Why is A the first letter of the alphabet? Why is O round? This work tells how Protosinaic pictograms - derived from Egyptian heiroglyphics and discovered in the Sinai only at the beginning of the 20th century - changed throughout the millennia and left their trace on our alphabet.
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Language
Original language
French
Original publication date
1997-05-10 (1e édition originale, Editions Assouline)
Physical description
381 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9780789205230