Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

The writing system is 6,000 years old, but its influence is still felt today Anne Trubek A museum worker wearing gloves holds up a cuneiform clay tablet, one of a collection of over 100, on ...

Cuneiform script and Sumerian writing When people living in southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) toward the end of the 4th millennium BC created documents by inscribing cuneiform characters on ...

The history of writing is for sale on the Internet, and it’s cheap. The opening bid for a cuneiform cone that allegedly hails from 2000 B.C.E. starts at $1. A square tablet recording a sale that ...

The origins of cuneiform writing are believed to have arisen in the ancient city of Uruk, in what is now southern Iraq, around 4000 BC. Initially used as a simple system of record-keeping for trade ...

CHICAGO — Writing, wheeled carts, the 60-minute hour, sailboats and seed plows are among the things a people called the Sumerians invented in the fabled Fertile Crescent about 5,000 years ago… ...

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, dating from about 3350-3000BC. Now, experts have linked early cuneiform ...

Although Egyptian hieroglyphics are more broadly familiar than cuneiform, Sumerian writing was done on clay, which is more durable than papyrus. As a result, Sumer is among the best documented of ...