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Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.
An image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Illustration of a printing press and a composing stick from the first edition (1768–71) of the Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, plate CXLVII, figure…
An image of The Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation book cover zoomed in.
Page pulled from "The Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation." It shows how to say the Book of…
This papyrus, one of many ancient Egyptian medical writings, included a prescription for asthma. This was written in hieratic text, c. 1550 BCE.