This is a Sumerian cuneiform ... tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform ... tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a huge leap forward by human kind. This writing system was in ...

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 ...

It was found that the markings on the tablet followed the cuneiform script. The ancient script which originated in the Middle East was used to create many languages like Sumerian and Akkadian.

It is written in cuneiform, the oldest known writing in the world, a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...