BBC3 个月
When was Ancient Sumer?
Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that ... and became one of the first people to start writing. Paper doesn’t exist yet, but we use clay ...
Ancient Clay Cylinders Reveal What May Be World's Oldest Alphabetic Writing
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
CNN24 天
World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.
Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...
6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
Ancient writing — using possibly ‘oldest known alphabet’ — unearthed in Syria. See it
Long before the “A, B, C Song” — built upon the Latin alphabet — and the alphas, betas and gammas of Ancient Greek, cultures around the world were communicating with one another. The Sumerians of ...