Invention of Pictographic and Cuneiform Writing at Uruk
3500 BCE
Creation of humanity's earliest written signs on clay tablets at Uruk, initiating recorded history.
Sources and References
Tablettes pictographiques d'Uruk IVa (Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin / Musée d'Irak)
Consulter l'archive officielle ↗Denise Schmandt-Besserat, How Writing Came About (Univ. of Texas Press, 1996)
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Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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