Place

Uruk

Ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, where the earliest known writing was made on clay tablets.

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In Uruk

Uruk was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its temple estates kept accounts on clay tablets, which is where Invention of writing begins in the records.

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Invention of writing Scholarship & press 1
The tablets were bookkeeping records: the British Museum says scribes first developed the script to track bread and beer rations.

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How to write cuneiform, British Museum, 21 Jan 2021. Scholarship & press Archived copy
First developed by scribes as a bookkeeping tool to keep track of bread and beer rations in ancient cities like Uruk (in the south east of modern-day Iraq)

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