History of writing

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).

formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians

thumb|upright=1.3|right|Shakespeare's will|William Shakespeare's will, written in [[secretary hand]]

history of the human use and development of writing systems

historical narrative based on a written record or other documented communication

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Slavic writing system developed in the 9th century in the First Bulgarian Empire

thumb|right|The Kish tablet, bearing pictographic symbols. Some of the symbols are written in a “…seemingly archaic form…” according to the CDLI entry.

overview about the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts

limestone tablet with proto-cuneiform Sumerian inscriptions

one of 3 cradles of civilization thought to have developed writing independently

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one of 64 script(ure)s in Lalitavistara

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1987 book by Georges Jean, from “Abrams Discoveries” series