The story of Invention of writing
The earliest known writing: signs drawn on clay tablets in southern Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BCE, the forerunner of cuneiform.
c. 3300 BCE – c. 3000 BCE
Invention of writing. The earliest known writing: signs drawn on clay tablets in southern Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BCE, the forerunner of cuneiform.
The invention of writing followed from the rise of cities in Mesopotamia.
The invention of writing led to the invention of the alphabet.
According to David R. Olson.
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