Will Durant did a fantastic job of drawing a detailed picture of the story of civilization, from the pre-history and how primitive tribes lived, ate, slept, married, etc. You can consider it a panoramic view of the history or, as one commented on it in Goodreads, a gift to humanity! The series is eleven volumes (including subseries), and Our Oriental Heritage is the first one published during the 1950s.
Last year after reading the book Sapiens (If you didn't read it, highly recommended!), I wanted to read more history books, and the book series The Story of Civilization was on my list for a long time. I learned this from the book, and I felt this “Huh!” multiple times while reading it. In the image above, you can see the number million or the word “many” in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and according to Wikipedia, it was pronounced as “Heh” or "Huh” in English. The number million or the word “many” in Egyptian hieroglyphs
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