Writing had been born. A Sumerian tablet bears a religious text. It was created using cuneiform, the world’s first writing system. Sumerian cuneiform spread across much of the Bronze Age Middle ...

But if you want to read the original Epic of Gilgamesh, or study the trade records of the ancient Sumerians, cuneiform is the only game in town. The ancient system of writing is one of, if not the, ...

The city’s western neighbors, the Sumerians, dubbed its residents ... at the turn of the 20th century uncovered evidence of a writing system that seemed nearly as old as cuneiform but used ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 B.C. The writing system is ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

However, it did borrow important Sumerian pieces from other institutions ... scholars believe that the Egyptians developed their own writing system independently. Experts are still struggling ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu ... Written partially in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern writing system—the tablets contain records of state affairs, blueprints ...

These tablets were inscribed in a writing system which we now call cuneiform which, once it had been deciphered by (among others) an Irish clergyman called Edward Hincks, turned out to represent ...