GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped, ‘’ because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found.

Detailed explanation-2: -That writing system, invented by the Sumerians, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE.

Detailed explanation-3: -The text was written in Akkadian cuneiform, the written language of the conquerors of the Sumerians, which was undeciphered until the mid-1800s. An Assyrian scribe holding a stylus and clay tablet records objects taken from a defeated city.

Detailed explanation-4: -It has long been known that the earliest writing system in the world was Sumerian script, which in its later stages was known as cuneiform.