Swindon Festival of Literature

IRVING FINKEL – on the world’s oldest way of writing at Swindon Festival of Literature

IRVING FINKEL – on the world’s oldest way of writing Cuneiform script, on tablets of clay, traces its roots back to 3,200 BC when, for the first time ever, someone came up with the idea of writing! The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could survive […]

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