Elamite language

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 (modern Iraq).

ancient language in Mesopotamia

pre-Iranian civilization from ca. 3400 BC to 2500 BC

Ganjnameh () is located 12 km southwest of Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) in western Iran, at an altitude of meters across Mount Alvand. The site is home to two trilingual Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The inscription on the upper left was created on the order of Achaemenid King Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and the one on the right by his son King Xerxes the Great (486–465 BC).

hypothesised language family that links the Dravidian languages of India

writing system from Elam

cuneiform writing of the Elamite language

cuneiform inscription near Lake Van, present-day Turkey

1857 archaeological discovery

cave in Iran

Achaemenid inscriptions in Egypt

archaeological site in Iran

script used for writing Elamite language in the early Bronze Age

Egyptian alabaster jar