While most of the Old World was writing on papyrus, bamboo, and silk, Europe carved its own gruesome path through the history books.
An excerpt from the book The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time by Keith Houston[1]
References
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K. Houston, The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time, 1st ed. W. W. Norton, 2016.