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HISTORY OF WRITING MATERIALS
Published on 19 Apr, 2010 at 6:07 in History | | No Comments
Inscribed in clay: from 3100 BC
In the river plains of Mesopotamia, where writing first develops, clay is an easily available commodity. It becomes the writing material of the temple scribes. Their implement is a piece of reed cut to form a rectangular end. These two ingredients define the first script. Characters are formed from the wedge-shaped marks which…
HISTORY OF WRITING
Published on 18 Apr, 2010 at 6:30 in History | | No Comments
Writing has its origins in the strip of fertile land stretching from the Nile up into the area often referred to as the Fertile Crescent. This name was given, in the early 20th century, to the inverted U-shape of territory that stretches up the east Mediterranean coast and then curves east through northern Syria and down the…