Search results
People also ask
What is the oldest writing in the world?
Is this the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem?
When was writing first discovered?
What was the earliest writing system?
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of ...
Jul 26, 2023 · The earliest confirmed form of writing is recorded on a limestone tablet, known as the Kish tablet, which dates to around 3,500 BCE. The tablet was found on the site of an ancient Sumerian city...
- Kish Tablet. Year Written: c.3500 BCE. Location: Tell al-Uhaymir, Babil Governorate, Iraq. Writing System: proto-cuneiform. photo source: Wikimedia Commons. While there are many claims that older tablets from various places around the world represent the oldest writing, the Kish tablet is widely regarded as the oldest writing in the world that has been confirmed.
- Narmer Palette. Year Written: c.3200 – 3000 BCE. Location: Temple of Horus, Nekhen (modern-day Aswan Governate), Egypt. Writing System: Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Proto-Elamite Tablets. Year Written: c.3200 – 2900 BCE. Location: Susa (modern-day southwestern Iran) Writing System: Proto-Elamite. photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
- Kesh Temple Hymn. Year Written: c.2600 BCE. Location: Temple library of Nippur (modern-day Nuffar, Iraq) Writing System: Cuneiform. photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
Jul 12, 2010 · FULL STORY. A tiny clay fragment -- dating from the 14th century B.C.E. -- that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem's Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in...
Share. Used by scribes for more than three millennia, cuneiform writing opens a dramatic window onto ancient Mesopotamian life. By THE EDITORS. May/June 2016. (Eric Lessing/Art Resource, NY) SCRIBE...
Nov 10, 2013 · The Codes of Ur Nammu are the oldest laws that we know of, a creation of the Sumerian king of that name. The codes were written around 2,050 BC and covered a wide array of crimes. The punishments set out include a fine of 15 shekels for perjury, compared to a fine of five shekels for raping a slave.
Nov 28, 2022 · Though it’s not the oldest written text, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, by all accounts, the most ancient piece of literature in the world (yet discovered, anyway) [ PDF ]. Its roots are in older ...
