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 ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Discover Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets at an Ancient Sumerian City in Iraq Archaeologists have ...

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 ...

Though Akkadian as a spoken language in Mesopotamia died out toward the ... visiting astronomers even tried to master the art of writing cuneiform. But the end was near. The last known tablets ...

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 ...

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 ...