Some Curious Facts About Writing

  The world of writing is both enigmatic and fantastic. It helps us interact with characters that existed thousands of years ago, in far-off lands. The written word lasts. That’s why many transcendental messages have ended up being recorded on a stone, paper, or any surface, in fact. However, writing’s natural home is in books. And books’ homes are libraries. One of the jewels of humanity as well as a cradle of knowledge was the Great Library of Alexandria. It’s said that it once housed some 900,000 volumes. Its final destruction, in the year 640 CE, left a monumental void….