15. Sumerians
(Alien concpiracy: One of the most
significant of Sitchin’s translations
of the Sumerian tablets and other
texts is specific to the story that the
human race was created as a slave race, specifically genetically
engineered to mine elements from the
earth for the benefit of theAnunnaki
to take back to their home planet.
China (The earliest printed book from movable type, being in Chinese characters, and therefore more obviously pictures
than our own letters (which were once pictures too), dates to the year 868 A.D
Japan (Block prints were produced in Japan as early as 770 of the Christian era.)
Arab countries
Europe
Egypt (papyros 4000 y.)
20. "HisWife Scolding the Drunken Mohammed,"
German woodcut print, c. 1481.
Holbein's woodcut circa 1520's]
Dance Macabre series
21. Daniel Hopfer, Ornament for
Daggar Sheath, n.d.
Etching on iron with open biting
FIRST PORTFOLIOS*
Martin Schongauer (1450-1491)
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24. Born
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden
Gutenberg
c. 1398
Mainz, Electorate of Mainz
Died
February 3, 1468 (aged 70)
Mainz, Electorate of Mainz
Nationality German
Occupation Engraver, inventor, and printer
Early wooden printing press, depicted in 1568. Such presses could produce up to 240 impressions per hour