![]() 6th century BC, via the British Museum, London Tablet in cuneiform script depicting map pf the world, ca. It is the origin of our present-day alphabet and it was uninterruptedly used for over a period of 10,000 years as its prehistoric antecedent. The earliest known script, the Mesopotamian cuneiform was invented in Sumer, present-day Iraq, circa 3200 BC. Mesopotamia: The Cuneiform Writing System The evolution of writing from tokens to graphic symbols, syllable symbols and later alphabet demonstrates the development of information processing, the constant increase of the need to deal with larger amounts of data in ever greater abstraction. Only much later and around the 3rd millennium BC, when the Sumerians developed a spiritual concern for the afterlife funerary inscriptions appear, which later paved the way to literary texts. ![]() It was indeed the accountants who invented writing back in the 8th millennium BC. The need to record information was initially purported for accounting purposes and to facilitate trade. Writing is the principal technology humankind invented to collect, manipulate, store, retrieve, communicate, and disseminate information. – A timeline of the evolution of the western Greek and Latin alphabet traced back in its ancestral line to the Sumerian cuneiform symbols. A Brief Timeline From Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics To Alphabet Fig.1.
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