cuneiform in Podcasts
conceptAncient writing system used in Mesopotamian civilizations, characterized by wedge-shaped impressions.
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In English, it gets its name from cuneus, which means wedge in Latin. you have these clay tablets in which people have impressed signs with a reed stylus that have these really characteristic wedge or triangular shape to them because of how they get impressed with the reed stylus. And so that is shared across 3,000 years of history. So over half of human written history is in cuneiform in a sense.