Cuneiform
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Cuneiform script is the earliest known writing system in the world. Cuneiform writing emerged in the Sumerian civilization of southern Iraq around the 34th century BC during the middle Uruk period, beginning as a pictographic system of writing. Cuneiform was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the Ancient Near East.
See also
- Journal of Cuneiform Studies
- List of cuneiform signs
- Old Persian cuneiform
- Ugaritic alphabet
- Elamite cuneiform
- Hittite cuneiform
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