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 ...

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 ...

Browse 10+ sumerian writing stock illustrations and vector graphics available royalty-free, or start a new search to explore more great stock images and vector art. Set of monochrome icons with ...

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...

Ancient history never tasted so good! Cuneiform (cyu-nay-i-form) meaning "wedge-shaped," is a writing system invented around 3000 BC by the Sumerian people in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq ...

Subtitle: A number of specimens of the writing of all ages, and a series of facsimiles from autograph letters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Vector cuneal letters and numbers. Cuneiform ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

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 ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and Ahi-Sin ...