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- The oldest known writing in the world is proto-cuneiform1. It was developed around 3400 B.C. by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia23. Other examples of ancient writing include1:
- Narmer Palette, written around 3200 – 3000 BCE
- Proto-Elamite Tablets, written around 3200 – 2900 BCE
- Kesh Temple Hymn, written around 2600 BCE
- Instructions of Shuruppak, written around 2600 BCE
- The Reforms of Urukagina, written around 2500 – 2340 BCE
- Palermo Stone
Learn more:âś•This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.7 Oldest Known Writing in the World
- 1. Kish Tablet Year Written: c.3500 BCE Location: Tell al-Uhaymir, Babil Governorate, Iraq Writing System: proto-cuneiform ...
- 2. Narmer Palette Year Written: c.3200 – 3000 BCE ...
www.oldest.org/artliterature/writing/The Sumerian civilization first developed writing around 3400 B.C., when they began making markings on clay tablets in a script known as cuneiform.www.history.com/news/what-is-the-oldest-known-pi…Cuneiform is the first writing system ever developed. It was created in Mesopotamia by the Sumerians around 3400 BCE.a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-oldest-written-te… - People also ask
List of oldest documents - Wikipedia
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents.
Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins
History of writing - Wikipedia
Before the 20th century, most scholarly theories of the origins of writing involved some form of monogenesis, the assumption that writing had been invented only once—namely, as cuneiform in ancient Sumer—and spread across the world from there via cultural diffusion. According to these theories, writing was such a particular technology that exposure through activities like trade was a much m…
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