Anyone who reads this book will feel like they have been on a fascinating excursion to a historical museum. It turns out that buttons can be used to recreate world history - from Ancient Egypt to the present day. The story of what buttons were used in the clothes of Egyptian military leaders, ancient Greeks, knights and kings of the Middle Ages, during the times of Peter I and Louis XV, in different centuries and in different countries, contains a lot of interesting, useful, memorable information and facts.