Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that ... and became one of the first people to start writing. Paper doesn’t exist yet, but we use clay ...

writing, and the 60 minute clock are all thought to have been invented by the Sumerians. The 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Archaeologists have found artefacts that tell us about Ancient ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia built a language from cuneiforms, or small images, thousands of years ago. The Ancient Egyptians ... “Alphabets revolutionized writing by making it accessible ...