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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 ...
Gizmodo

5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...
The Conversation

ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the ...
Nature

Sumerian Mythology*

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that only so ...