Sleep Stories from the Pioneers
The History of History | How Humanity Learned to Remember the Past
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Fall asleep to the surprising history of how humanity learned to remember the past — from stories carried by human voices and marks pressed into clay to archives, photographs, recordings and digital files. Tonight’s journey begins before writing, when memory had to pass from one person to another. From there, we follow the development of writing in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mesoamerica, and…