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.

2023年1月18日 · Though anthropologists and archaeologists tend to accept that the oldest written word appeared around 5,000 years ago, a new paper published in the Cambridge Archaeology Journal pushes this date back by about 15,000 years.

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 …

2023年7月26日 · Ever wonder what the oldest written text that has ever been found is? Needless to say, it’s pretty old, but humans have been communicating about their experiences and reality for millennia. It...

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.

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.

2018年1月12日 · Old English was written with a runic alphabet. Discover the history of Old English writing, and how it changed into modern English.

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.