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3500 B.C. - The Sumerians
The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptions develop Hieroglyphic writing.
Sumerian Cuneiform is the oldest known written language in human history and was not deciphered
until the nineteenth century AD. The earliest known form comes from Uruk, which took the form of
'word-pictures' drawn with a stylus on tablets of damp clay. Each word-picture represented an
object. The word-pictures from Uruk developed into the new script now called cuneiform. The
pictures gradually became 'ideographs', an object also meaning an 'idea'. Then came 'phonograms'
representing sounds as well as the meaning of a picture. Hieroglyphs are unlike Sumerian Cuneiform
in that it is much more obscure. It was once thought that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were religious and
historical, but recent developments could point to an economical purpose for the script.
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