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 ...

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 ...

the Ashmolean Museum houses the second-largest collection of cuneiform tablets in the UK, including some of the earliest known examples of writing. They offer a rare insight into an area of the ...