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In addition, the Sumerians invented the sexagesimal system, which defines time and seconds, because the cuneiform writing they used had a way of writing numbers from 1 to 59.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Cuneiform recorded Sumerian, Akkadian, and other languages of Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

Formed by impressing reed styluses into clay, the text was adopted by cultures such as the Babylonians, Assyrians, and Sumerians, each of which had its own language.