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.

Hardcover: 210 × 279 mm, 156 full-colour pages on 150gsm coated paper, printed case with matt lamination. Printed to order in the UK. Free UK delivery, ships in 5–8 working days.