Language & Writing

        Ancient Mesopotamian were among the first people to develop writing. In Early Mesopotamia, (around mid 4th millennium BC) cuneiform script was invented. Cuneiform literally means "wedge-shaped", due to the triangular tip of the stylus used for impressing signs on wet clay. The standardized form of each cuneiform sign appear to have been developed from pictograms. The earliest texts (7 archaic tablets) come from the E-anna super sacred precinct dedicated to the goddess Inanna at Uruk, Level III, from a building labeled as Temple C by its excavators.

        The world's earliest written language, Sumerian, were developed through a few stages (from pictographic, to ideogram, to cuneiform). They are written on clay tables, using a tool called 'stylus'.

         Later, Akkadian became the dominant language. The Sumerian language was retained for administrative, religious, literary, and scientific purposes. After the Akkadian, came Armaic.
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