Who Developed Cuneiform Writing?

The earliest writing we know of dates back to around 3,000 B.C.E. and was probably invented by the Sumerians, living in major cities with centralized economies in what is now southern Iraq.

Who developed the cuneiform writing system?

That writing system, invented by the Sumerians, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE.

Who invented cuneiform or wedge writing?

The origins of cuneiform may be traced back approximately to the end of the 4th millennium bce. At that time the Sumerians, a people of unknown ethnic and linguistic affinities, inhabited southern Mesopotamia and the region west of the mouth of the Euphrates known as Chaldea.

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