28 Ekim 2012 Pazar

Cuneiform

History has been beginning with invention of writing and this has been cuneiform as you know.People preferred stones because of lack of paper.After the invention of papyrus term of writing on stone finished and also cuneiform broke up.

[Sumerians believed in education.Record keeping was very important to them.Their written language began as pictographs, pictures of things that acted as words.Pictographs worked,but they were rather cumbersome.Soon,Sumerians started to use wedge-shaped symbols for objects and ideas instead of pictures.Today we call this written language wedge-shaped symbols cuneiform.]

A few examples for cuneiform...




















Look at cuneiform tablets!





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