Cuneiform — The First Writing | Heritage Metal Sign

It began as accounting. Someone in Uruk around 3400 BCE needed to record how many jars of beer had been delivered to the temple, pressed a stylus into wet clay, and made a mark. From that administrative necessity, over centuries, emerged the most revolutionary cognitive technology in human history: writing. Cuneiform — wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay — became capable of expressing any word in any language. The last known cuneiform text was written in 75 CE, by a Babylonian astronomer who may have been the last person on earth who could read it. The clay tablet, the reed stylus, the first word — in permanent aluminum.

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