"...Among the artifacts discovered, and comparatively recently translated, are the works of the earliest known writer, Enheduanna. She lived and wrote, around 2300 B.C.E., almost two thousand years before the "golden age" of Greece..."
"Mesopotamia, a definition of convenience for an ancient historical area that includes present-day Iraq and north-eastern Syria and some additional bordering areas, is in the general geographic area defined by the term, Middle-East. Cuneiform script, writing characterized by the use of a stylus and cross-hatching on clay, developed early in this area and came to be used for the next 3,000 years as the script for a number of languages. Its utility and flexibility as well as its durability–much of the writing was done on small clay pillows and cylinders allowed to harden in the sun or fired–created an enormous number of artifacts. Unlike the papyrus and vellum of the Egyptians and the Greeks, clay tablets are much more permanent. The huge number of extant artifacts means that much remains to be translated. Because of this abundance of material, scholars in Assyriology will continue to catalog and translate much of this material for the next several generations..."
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See: http://www.public.asu.edu/~rbinkle/enheduanna.htm
"...Among the artifacts discovered, and comparatively recently translated, are the works of the earliest known writer, Enheduanna. She lived and wrote, around 2300 B.C.E., almost two thousand years before the "golden age" of Greece..."
"Mesopotamia, a definition of convenience for an ancient historical area that includes present-day Iraq and north-eastern Syria and some additional bordering areas, is in the general geographic area defined by the term, Middle-East. Cuneiform script, writing characterized by the use of a stylus and cross-hatching on clay, developed early in this area and came to be used for the next 3,000 years as the script for a number of languages. Its utility and flexibility as well as its durability–much of the writing was done on small clay pillows and cylinders allowed to harden in the sun or fired–created an enormous number of artifacts. Unlike the papyrus and vellum of the Egyptians and the Greeks, clay tablets are much more permanent. The huge number of extant artifacts means that much remains to be translated. Because of this abundance of material, scholars in Assyriology will continue to catalog and translate much of this material for the next several generations..."