Day 143 of 365
May 23
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History The Origins of Writing
Writing was invented independently at least three times: in Mesopotamia (3400 BCE), China (1200 BCE), and Mesoamerica (600 BCE). The first writing systems began as simple pictographs for accounting, eventually evolving into complex scripts capable of recording literature, laws, and philosophy.
💡 Did you know?
The oldest known writing is Sumerian cuneiform, which started as a system to track beer rations!
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