What Came Before Cuneiform?
What Came Before Cuneiform? The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400–3100 BCE, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BCE. What was cuneiform replaced with? Ultimately, it was completely replaced by alphabetic writing (in the