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Cuneiform, the world's earliest writing system, pressed wedge marks into clay using what tool?
Scribes cut a reed stem to a wedge tip and pressed it into soft clay, leaving the script's triangular marks.
What people of ancient Mesopotamia invented cuneiform, the earliest known writing?
Sumerian scribes in Uruk created cuneiform around 3200 BCE, initially to record grain and livestock.
The writing name cuneiform comes from the Latin word for what shape?
Latin cuneus means wedge; cuneiform signs were formed by pressing a stylus to make wedge-shaped impressions.
Which British scholar first deciphered cuneiform using the Behistun Inscription?
Rawlinson scaled a cliff in Iran to copy the trilingual Behistun Inscription, unlocking Old Persian cuneiform in the 1830s.