Search


	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		How the invention of the book shaped humanity
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:08
	Publish Date:		2025-12-30 21:10:00
	Description:		If we weren't so used to having books, we would think of them as a "miracle." That's how historian Irene Vallego views what she says is humankind's greatest and most influential invention: the book. "With their help, humanity has undergone an extraordinary acceleration of history, development, and progress," she tells host Nahlah Ayed. Vallego has traced written texts back to their earliest origins and she's written a book of her own, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World.
	Total Play:		0