This piece of clay contains some of the earliest writing in the world. It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here ...

The scribe, Nur-Sin, selected the wet clay and wrote the text with a blunt reed, and then the tablet was baked. Cuneiform is one of the earliest forms of written expression and so represents a ...

Uruk, now known as Warka, was one of the earliest cities to arise ... iconographic signs attributed to proto-cuneiform have only ever been found on tablets in southern Iraq.

The cuneiform tablet, measuring 4.2 by 3.5 centimeters ... was widely spoken in the ancient Near East and is considered the ...

and the findings of this study bridge this divide by illustrating how some late prehistoric images were incorporated into one of the earliest invented writing systems.” Proto-cuneiform tablets ...