It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped ... When did writing develop? The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking ...

While earlier writing systems had already emerged before 2400 B.C.—such as cuneiform, for example—these did not make use of an alphabet. Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing ...

These tablets, dating to the 7th century BCE, represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the ...