INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Though the Sumerians developed cuneiform and the Egyptians developed hieroglyphs, both systems were the foundations of other systems of writing such as the English alphabet.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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 stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word hieroglyph literally means “sacred carvings". The Egyptians first used hieroglyphs exclusively for inscriptions carved or painted on temple walls. This form of pictorial writing was also used on tombs, sheets of papyrus, wooden boards covered with a stucco wash, potsherds and fragments of limestone.