An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets
The earliest writing system (used, for example, in ancient Mesopotamia) A form of writing on wet clay tablets using a wedge-like writing tool called a stylus
One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; called also pyramidal and ulnare
Early Mesopotamian writing that used a stylus (writing implement) to write wedge-shaped impressions on raw clay; from the Latin word for wedge
The oldest form of writing, invented by the ancient Sumerians around 3,000 BC The word "cuneiform" means "wedge-shaped" and refers to the peculiar shapes of the marks made by sharpened reeds on clay tablets