A notched bone some twenty thousand years old. A surgeon’s manual that sorted injuries by prognosis. A mathematics textbook signed by its scribe. Granite walls laid without mortar, libraries of hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, and some 100,000 shafts cut to carry water under the Sahara.

This book gathers twenty-six relics of African science, mathematics and engineering, from the Ishango bone to the Bamum script, and sets each one beside the story that was told to deny that it could have been created by African hands.

The bundle: one Collector’s Edition (green buckram cloth, gold foil, matt dust jacket, printed endpapers, antique-gold sprayed edges, ribbon marker) and one Hardcover (printed case, matt laminated). Both 210 × 279 mm, 156 full-colour pages. Printed to order in the UK and shipped together. Free UK delivery, ships in 10–15 working days.