Cuneiform alphabet Sumerian Symbols Charm

Ancient Sumerians, who lived in Mesopotamia, invented the cuneiform alphabet for the first time between 3500 and 3000 BCE. Initially employed to record transactions for simple products, cuneiform gradually developed into a more complicated written language that served several functions. Cuneiform was originally a pictographic writing system in which each character represented a miniature image of a concept. Until they assumed a more symbolic shape, these pictures underwent increasing simplification and codification. Cuneiform was a writing system that could be used in several languages; it wasn't a language.