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The invention of cuneiform writing in Sumer Jean-Jacques Glassner ; translated and edited by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop

1. The Sumerian Account of the Invention of Writing -- 2. Time and Place of the Invention -- 3. Received Ideas: The Pictographic Origins of Cuneiform Writing -- 4. Received Ideas: The Origin of ...
National Geographic news

This ancient society helped build the modern world.

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago. High ...
Greek Reporter

The Oldest Languages in the World and the Origins of Writing

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Miguel Civil, world’s leading scholar of ancient Sumerian, 1926-2019

Miguel Civil, the world’s leading expert in the earliest known written language, died on Jan. 13 at age 92. The scholar at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute was described as understanding ...