(Why this ancient 'King of the World' in Assyria ... It was created using cuneiform, the world’s first writing system. Sumerian cuneiform spread across much of the Bronze Age Middle East.

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

The city’s western neighbors, the Sumerians, dubbed its residents ... Then, he says he intends to tackle the next summit of ancient writing system codebreakers: Proto-Elamite.

The tablet was found on the site of an ancient Sumerian city called Kish ... cuneiform into all sorts of stone objects too. The writing system was in use for around 3,000 years and produced ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now ... appears in the highly influential ancient Sumerian city of Uruk and dates to between 3350 ...

The tablets contain inscriptions in cuneiform—what is generally considered to be the oldest known writing system. Developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago ...

Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that ... We even use the grid system for our roads and buildings, just like you still do.