Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years ... Here, a few fine and varied examples of some of the most interesting ones that have been. A trilingual inscription discovered ...

This location seems to be home to some of the earliest examples of urbanization as well as writing way back in ... to written language known as proto-cuneiform script as well as pictographic ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped ... When did writing develop? The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking ...

He points to classical sources that mention that Babylonian temples continued to thrive, and believes that they would have maintained scribes still capable of reading and writing cuneiform to ...