La gran invención

Ferrara's book is a popular essay on one of humanity's most important creations: writing, which has emerged in different places, at different times, independently, from scratch. From the engravings of the Cretan tablets to the signs of Easter Island, China, Mexico or Mesopotamia, but also from the dawn of civilization to recent times, we witness an exciting journey through the mysteries of signs, which are born from the effort for organizing social relationships or they are hard-working solitary creations, even with a playful character. If the Rosetta stone allowed us to understand hieroglyphs, there are still undeciphered systems, such as the Voynich manuscript, the quipu of the Incas or the Festus disk. This book invites us to think about our communicative capacity, which ranges from cave inscriptions to the unpredictable path of future writing: emojis, which connect directly with the iconic origins of written expression.