Birth of Writing by George Erkvania

One of the most important developments and discoveries of humankind has been writing, but often people do not realize how long and complicated this path has been.

The invention of writing happened in different way in different ancient civilizations, but it followed the same basic fundamental steps of development.
First, to indicate something people used it’s picture or conventional sign:

Later they made it to the phonetic writing system based on the mechanics of the Rebus.Than they went to a syllabic writing and at the end they started alphabetic writings

The Tigris-Euphrates river valley is often called the “Cradle of Civilization,” as it is the place where one of the earliest civilizations and the earliest writing system developed. (Image)
People living in southern Mesopotamia developed one of the earliest writing system in the world. Around 3100 B.C barley was the most important crop in Southern Mesopotamia and farmers needed to record the trades and amounts of received barleys.

Later, tool was used to wedge shapes into clay called cuneiforms. (From the Latin cuneus, meaning "wedge"). Cuneiform writing was developed and was used to express variety of information such as temple activities, business, trade, myths and personal letters.

Today Latin alphabet has become the most used alphabet in the world today. It is used all across Europe and around the world for thousands of different languages.








Reference: British Museum's website.(2001). Mesopotamia covering Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria. Retrieved March 28, 2009 from

http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/