This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is now extinct. This tablet has writing on both sides detailing how Enlil-izu and ...

This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a ... medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed ... of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed ... of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient Middle East. Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...