Pictograms impressed onto clay tablets with a reed evolved over time into cuneiform. Around the same era, Egyptian hieroglyphs developed. By externalizing memory, writing made law, literature, accounting, and state administration possible; it is regarded as the threshold separating prehistoric from historical ages.
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Frequently asked questions
- What was Invention of Writing?
- Writing emerged around 3200 BCE in southern Mesopotamia (Uruk) out of the need to keep temple and trade records.
- When did Invention of Writing happen?
- 3200 BCE
- Where did Invention of Writing take place?
- Sümer, Mezopotamya