Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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An excerpt from the film Order & Disorder – Information, Dr Jim Al-Khalili speaks with Dr Irving Finkel of the British Museum about how the symbols used in written language evolved from representations of things to representations of sounds, which unlocked the key to the preservation of human thought.

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