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Ancient Middle East, Ancient Alphabets, Ancient Scripts, Ancient Sumerian, Ancient Writing, 6th Grade Social Studies, Ancient Languages, Ancient Mesopotamia, Writing Systems

Writing - Sumerian, Cuneiform, Pictographs: The development of cuneiform from pictographs to Assyrian characters.Courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of The University of ChicagoThe outline of the development of the Sumerian writing system has been worked out by paleographers. It has long been known that the earliest writing system in the world was Sumerian script, which in its later stages was known as cuneiform. The earliest stages of development are still a matter…

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Cuneiform Alphabet, Ancient Letters, World History Classroom, Ancient World History, World History Lessons, Semitic Languages, Writing Systems, History Classroom, Ancient Mesopotamia

We’ve talked in the past about the Linear B and Greek alphabetic script in the first two lines of the CREWS logo. Today we’re going to skip ahead and have a look at the last line. This is written in Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform. Ugarit was a city on the coast of what’s now northern Syria,…

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