CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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on wood blocks
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on cave walls
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on clay tablets
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on stones
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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: -Cuneiform is one of the earliest known forms of writing beginning about 3000 B.C. The Sumerians created cuneiform by imprinting pictures onto a clay tablet using a stylus, forming wedge-shaped symbols. The word cuneiform comes from the Latin word cuneus, which means “wedge".
Detailed explanation-3: -Inscriptions in an unknown simple system of cuneiform were found; the low number of 30 different signs pointed to an alphabetic type. The use of a vertical stroke as word-divider facilitated the decipherment, which was based on the correct assumption that an early North Semitic Canaanite dialect was involved.