The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... And all this began before 3,000 BC. From the outset the writing was done on clay, a most fortunate decision because tablets survive ...

Cuneiform as a robust writing tradition endured 3,000 years. The script—not itself a language—was used by scribes of multiple cultures over that time to write a number of languages other than ...

invented around 3200 BC in Mesopotamia. It was preceded by a simpler system called proto-cuneiform, which was in use from 3350 to 3000 BC. Proto-writing like proto-cuneiform is distinguished by a ...

He believes it was only when the very last of these temple scribes died that the rich, 3,000-year-old cuneiform record finally fell silent. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq. CULTURE: Late Babylonian.