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Oldest writing Cuneiform writing used a stylus to make wedge-shaped impressions in unbaked clay. These impressions created signs representing sounds to make a record of spoken language.

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.

The oldest known writing system in the world, cuneiform was developed around 5,500 years ago and was used across ancient Mesopotamia for about three millennia.

ALALAH, TURKEY— IFL Science reports that a cuneiform tablet unearthed in southern Turkey at the site of Eski Alalah, which is also known as the Aççana Mound, records the purchase of a large ...

The oldest known true writing system is cuneiform, invented around 3200 BC in Mesopotamia. It was preceded by a simpler system called proto-cuneiform, which was in use from 3350 to 3000 BC.

Archaeologists discovered a small, clay tablet covered in cuneiform in the ancient ruins of Alalah, a major Bronze Age-era city located in present-day Turkey.

The Epic of Gilgamesh: It’s a tale some 4,000 years old, passed down only in an extinct writing system of wedge-shaped characters on fragments of clay tablets.

Others are convinced. “It’s an alphabet,” says Silvia Ferrara, a professor in early languages at the University of Bologna in Italy, who was not involved in the work. “It’s easy-peasy.

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 ...