Welcome to the TAM-TAM Audio guide, the Diffuse Museum of Communication
Timeline (from the origins to the Sistine Chapel)
In this space, you can listen to the description of some key points along the route and immerse yourself in their history and meaning.



Rector Valentina Garavaglia
Welcome to TAM-TAM
Prof. Gianni Canova
We Are not Autarkists
Opere
01
The origin
The Tower of Babel
08
2000 BC
Smoke signals
12
Circa 1.000 BC
Carrier Pigeons
15
776 BC
The Olympics
17
7th BC
Libraries
18
6th BC
The minted coin
22
312 BC
The Appian Way and Roman roads
26
1st century AD
The postal service
28
3rd AD
Kamasutra
32
8th AD
Conflict between iconoclasm and iconophilism
33
950 AD
One Thousand and One Nights
34
From the year 1000
Architecture as a medium: the monastery, the castle, the cathedral
35
From the c. 10th
The pulpit and the square
38
11th
Purgatory
39
11th-12th
Fragmentation of Latin and spread of vernacular languages
41
12th-13th AD
Paper
43
1292-1296
Giotto paints the frescoes in the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
45
1321
The Divine Comedy
47
1435
Leon Battista Alberti and the invention of perspective
48
1455
Gutenberg and the invention of printing
50
























