cuneiform
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This early writing system, known as cuneiform, helped support the rise of complex cities and organized governments by allowing people to track goods, people, and decisions.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
But Iraqi officials repeatedly urged them to depart, despite their discovery of ancient cuneiform tablets.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Some of these include cuneiform bricks, terracotta pots, coins and other objects sourced from places like Babylon, Mesopotamia, Susa and Iran and are dated to 4000-5000 BCE.
From BBC • May 16, 2025
To this day, my notes look like something between cuneiform and the lines from furniture on wooden floors after decades of wear and tear.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024
Later Sumerian cuneiform did become capable of rendering prose, but it did so by the messy system that I’ve already described, with mixtures of logograms, phonetic signs, and unpronounced determinatives totaling hundreds of separate signs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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