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.

Before the current written scripts, texts, and linguistic manuscripts, there were various oldest writing systems emerging ...

As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub ... the first iteration of a writing system comprising hundreds of pictographic signs. “Like cylinder seals, proto-cuneiform ...

To decipher a script, the following subproblems have to be solved in order, Italian philologist Fabio Tamburini wrote in 2023 (Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation using ...

a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything) and Babylonian (related to modern Hebrew and ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and may link the site to the ancient city of Qabra. New discoveries at the anci ...

By the 1850s, several scholars claimed to have decoded cuneiform, an ancient Mesopotamian script that had first been discovered several decades earlier. But, as Hammer explains, the public was ...

Designs on ancient stone cylinders correspond to origin of writing in Mesopotamia, researchers discover Nov 5, 2024 'Forgotten city:' the identification of Dura-Europos' neglected sister site in Syria ...

The Mesopotamian civilisation ... The Mesopotamians developed cities, agriculture, architecture, and even a system of writing. In those days, navigation systems were not so developed that ...