Inventions, discoveries, introductions 3000 BC 2000 BC Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in the Americas (in Ecuador).

The text is written without the knowledge of how to read hieroglyphics, and the work represents the last major work to be written before the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script, which would slowly become available just as the first volumes of the large expanded text of the second edition were printed.