Although humans started making art (cave paintings, figurines, etc.) to depict the world around them over 40,000 years ago, writing did not emerge until much later in human history. These early cave paintings turned into pictographs, which then turned into proto-writing systems.

6 天之前 · Writing is one of humanity’s most transformative inventions, enabling the recording of history, the administration of societies, and the expression of complex ideas. Among the earliest writing systems are cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and the Indus script, each of which emerged independently in different parts of the ancient world.

The history of writing traces the development of writing systems [1] and how their use transformed and was transformed by different societies. The use of writing prefigures various social and psychological consequences associated with literacy and literary culture.

While there were a few proto-writing systems that mainly used symbols that are older, Cuneiform is widely accepted as the oldest written language in the world. Cuneiform was first developed by one of the world’s first modern civilizations, the Sumerians from …

2024年11月9日 · A recent study has revealed a compelling link between Mesopotamian cylinder seals used in trade and the proto-cuneiform symbols that emerged as one of the earliest writing systems.

2024年11月30日 · A Sumerian proto-cuneiform clay tablet—the Kish Tablet—is the oldest confirmed written text and offers a glimpse into the evolution of ancient writing. It uses proto-cuneiform pictographs and was created around 5,500 years ago.

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed...

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in time evolve into one of the world's first true writing systems.

Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066, a period often termed Anglo-Saxon England. [1] The 7th-century work Cædmon's Hymn is often considered as the oldest surviving poem in English, as it appears in an 8th-century copy of …

2024年11月5日 · Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled across...