History of Writing

One of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform script, a system of wedge-shaped marks, which emerged in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BCE. It began with a system of picto... Read allOne of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform script, a system of wedge-shaped marks, which emerged in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BCE. It began with a system of pictograms, and was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet, the oldest known alphabet, w... Read allOne of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform script, a system of wedge-shaped marks, which emerged in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BCE. It began with a system of pictograms, and was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet, the oldest known alphabet, which derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs, containing 22 consonant letters, the origin of the... Read all