Considered by some, the oldest known written document known to man, Kish tablet is a carving in limestone found in the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in present day Iraq. The tablet is considered belonging to the ancient Sumer kingdom. Kish is located 5 kilometers to the east of the present day site of Babylon. Stephen Herbert Langdon, an Assyriologist, discovered the tablet during his excavation at the site of Kish during the period of ten years from 1923 to 1933. The writing on the tablet is pictographic. It is considered to be belonging to 3500 BC (the early Bronze age), which makes it about 5600 years old. It is likely that the writing is in Sumerian language but this fact is not yet confirmed. The tablet has not been translated to this
Cuneiform was the first ever form of writing. The Sumerians were the main inventors of this writing. The symbol as we know them now consist of lines and wedges. One of the
To start out, the Sumerians invented cuneiform, which had a major impact on the future. It was invented 5,000 years ago (Doc. 1). They used it to keep records about their crops, business dealings, and occasionally love letters (OI). They also used cuneiform to write myths (OI). Cuneiform was written on clay tablets, then baked
Before the formation of Persia, the region was occupied by a group of people by the name Elam. The Elamite civilization first developed in the Susian plain, under the influence of nearby Sumeria and Mesopotamia ( ancient name for an area now known as Iraq ) . the Sumerians were the most advanced and complex civilization at that time. In 3100 B.C they invented a Semipictographic writing system which was one of the first writing systems in the world. Around 3000 B.C a group of people by the name Akkaians moved into the northern Sumerian territory. Eventually the Akkads took over the Sumerians and Elams and established the Sume-Akkad Empire. At this time the Akkad Empire spread from the Mediterranean sea to the Caspian sea in the north and Persian Gulf in the south
Writing is perhaps the most important building block of communication - after verbal speech, of course. Writing, like most of human civilization, has its roots in ancient Mesopotamia. The first writing systems began in a style known as cuneiform (Cuneiform, 2013). These wedge-shaped markings have their roots in Sumerian culture and were used predominantly for record keeping and accounting. At the archaeological site of Uruk in what is modern day Iraq, a great wealth of knowledge has been gained from the artifacts located there. Uruk was a ceremonial site and is home to the world’s oldest known documented written documents (Price and Feinman, 2013). The documents discovered list quantities of goods that may have been stored at Uruk, leading archaeologists to believe that writing in this part of the world was developed primarily to keep lists of transactions and stockpiled quantities of goods located at the site.
Another work of art that is important to the history of Ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh was found inscribed upon 12 incomplete Akkadian-language stone tablets found in the mid-19th century by the Turkish Assyriologist Hormuzd Rassam (Britannica, n.d.). In addition to those tablets parts of ...
Known as the world’s first great piece of literature, The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic series of poems written on clay tablets in early 2000 BCE. Although the author(s) is unknown, we do know that it was written in what is known as the grandparent of Western culture, Mesopotamia or current day Iraq. However, the most complete version we have today was written by Sîn-Iēqi-unninni between 1300 and 1000 BCE. During the time that researchers think the epic was written, the Sumerians were taking back the city of Mesopotamia and ultimately power over the Akkadian Empire. Later during the time in which we thought the epic was written, Hammurabi became emperor of Babylon and soon took over much of Mesopotamia. While all of this is going on between 2100 and 1300 BCE, many people believe that although we do not have actual confirmation on the date the epic was written, it was believed to be passed around orally around the 2300s.
Enduring a breakup with his girlfriend, Roman poet Catullus turns to writing ill-mannered poetry about her. ‘42. The Writing Tablets: to the Hendecasyllables’ is Catullus’ poem about his relationship with Lesbia, a pseudonym for his ended love affair, in where he calls her a ‘base adulteress’ and demands back his letters in which he wrote to her. This poem is what I choose to do a creative response to, due to Catullus’ strong themes of justice, anger and his use of visual imagery.
He compares the use of this phrase and the structure of each section to the stone tablets written in cuneiform script. Many of these tablets have been discovered and they date to the third millenium BC.
The earliest writing in Mesopotamia was a picture writing invented by the Sumerians who wrote on clay tablets using long reeds. The script the Sumerians invented and handed down to the Semitic peoples who conquered Mesopotamia in later centuries, is called cuneiform, which is derived from two Latin words: cuneus , which means "wedge," and forma , which means "shape." This picture language, similar to but more abstract than Egyptian hieroglyphics, eventually developed into a syllabic alphabet under the Semites (Assyrians and Babylonians) who eventually came to dominate the area.
Gilgamesh is introduced as knowing all things and countries including mysteries and secrets that went on a long journey and had his story engraved on stone. This gives us a little information on the writing technique in Sumeria. Sumerian art was complex. Clay was the Sumerians' most widely used material. Sumerian available because of the invention of cuneiform writing before 3000 B.C. The characters consist of wedge-like strokes, impressed on clay tablets. This system of writing developed before the last centuries of the 4th millennium B.C. in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, probably by the Sumerians The history of the script is strikingly like that of the Egyptian hieroglyphic. This must have been the technique that Gilgamesh uses in order to transcribe his story onto these clay tablets. It was reinforced in the story by mentioning it at the beginning and end of the Epic.
In ancient times mankind used the spoken word in order to tell stories to one another. This tradition carried on until the year 3500 -3000 BCE., when the earliest known written language to man appeared in southern Mesopotamia in the city of Sumer (Mark). As the written language progressed from symbols and images to words with sounds, people began to switch their method of storytelling to the written language, or literature. Some of the earliest works of literature still studied today comes from the Ancient Mediterranean lands. These stories, written in various formats, tell of the nature of all things involving gods, men, and the world that surrounded the people of the time.
Nineteenth century British explorer Henry Rawlinson was among the first archeologists to draw attention to the importance of cuneiform writing. Arguably, his most valuable discovery was the monument at Bisitun in present-day Iran; Bitisun is a massive memorial to Darius, famed king of ancient Persia. Accor...
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is one the oldest and most interesting forms of written language developed. There is evidence of its use from before 3200 BCE and Egyptian hieroglyphs remained in use for over 3,500 years. The Egyptian name for hieroglyphs translates to “language of the gods,” although the term hieroglyph actually came from Greek words meaning “sacred carving,” which the Greeks used to define the writing found on Egyptian monuments and temples (Ancient Egypt, Hieroglyphics, n.d.).
The article “A study of the tablet computer’s application in K-12 school in China.” They explained the tablet computers access to K-12 education in China and other developing areas. Taotao Long is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at The University of Tennessee. She has a master degree in Instructional Technology in College of Educational Technology. Wenxin Liang is a Distance Education specialist in the Center for Distance Education. She is working on the Distance Education and Training for K-12 teachers. Shengquan Yu is a professor of Educational Technology, and Dean of the College of Educational Technology. Meanwhile, his research areas are design and sharing of Ubiquitous Learning resources, integrating Informational Technology into curriculum, educational information ecology, Educational Technology standards, knowledge media, etc.
The first primary civilization was located in Southern Mesopotamia, known as Sumer. The Sumerians invented the first writing known as Cuneiform. We are left with tens of thousands of written records on many aspects of the Sumerians, the most notable of these being the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is an a...