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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeological findings from the city-states that arose in ancient Mesopotamia offer sometimes surprisingly clear glimpses of ...

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 ancient Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, invented writing about 3,300 B.C., using a complicated cuneiform writing system on clay tablets.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Archaic writing tablet from Mesopotamia (approx. 3000 B.C.). The tablet, which contains proto-cuneiform writing, belongs to the most ancient group of written records on Earth.