Collection No. 23 of 24

Communication and media

Letters, messengers, printing, newspapers, radio and the internet.

0 subjects · 2 lessons · 1 object · 3 events

The thread through time

Everything in this drawer at its date. Objects above the line, lessons and events below. Each step to the right is ten times closer to today.

300,000 years ago10,0003,0001,000100nowWriting, invented four timesLife on the frontierThe Great Pyramid, photographed in 1849

Object Lesson Event

Lessons

  1. Writing, invented four timesWas writing invented once, or more than once?The long human story · 3400 BC to 200 BC
  2. Life on the frontierWho actually lived on the northern frontier?Roman Britain · About AD 85 to 400

Objects