Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World Quotes

“Phoenicians pioneered a new style of writing that reproduced not images of the things described but the sounds used for them in speech--the first alphabetic script, As trade developed, writing became more common, for clay tablets had been replaced by an Egyptian technology: papyrus. The thinner more flexible material, made from the pith of reeds growing along the Nile, is the ancestor of the English word 'paper' (now being replaced by The Tablet).”
― Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

“Sargon grew up as a gardener”
― Philip Matyszak, Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World