The Birth of Writing in Mesopotamia. According to Dr. Irving Finkel, Curator and Assyriologist, the earliest evidence for writing was in southern Mesopotamia around 3200–3350 BC ...
Carvings made on tools and sculptures over 40,000 years ago were a "precursor" to written language, suggests new research. Stone Age sign sequences have the same level of complexity and information ...
Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...