Cuneiform

Period

c. 3200 BC

Map

Inventions map

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the 1st century BC. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia.

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Earlier and later events nearby

1. c. 3200 BCCuneiformThis page
2. c. 3200 BCCuneiform
3. c. 2300 BCFounding of the Akkadian Empire
4. c. 1754 BCCode of Hammurabi

Who ruled this land

States that held this place in the historical borders data (Cliopatria). Years are approximate, as fine as the data's snapshots (every few years to a century). Tap to open the map for that year.

Other maps for this period

• Inventions mapEgyptian hieroglyphs