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Ancient Written Language

 

Cuneiform: The term applied to the arrow-headed characters found in Assyria, Persia and Mesopotamia, dating back thousands of years.

Wedge Shaped Inscriptions 

Cuneiform is the name given to a form of writing used in inscriptions by the ancient Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians and Hittites.

The characters. each of which is in the form of a wedge, were developed by earlier ideographs, and generally speaking they represent, not individual letters, but syllables or entire words.

The writing was impressed in clay.

References 

  • The New International Illustrated Encyclopaedia, Volume 2, 1954.
  • Pears Cyclopaedia, Twenty-Ninth Edition, 1926.
  • The Australian Concise Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, 1992
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