Writing was invented in Mesopotamia, using cuneiform script.

Each scene occupies four panels around the monument and is described by a cuneiform script above them.

Rawlinson's greatest contribution to the deciphering of the cuneiform scripts was the discovery that individual signs had multiple readings depending on their context.

The first writing code was the cuneiform script, which emerged in Mesopotamia c. 3500 BC, written on clay tablets.

It was in these cities that the earliest known form of writing, cuneiform script, appeared c. 3000 BCE.

Approximately two hundred inscriptions written in the Urartian language, which adopted and modified the cuneiform script, have been discovered to date.

The Code is inscribed in the Akkadian language, using cuneiform script carved into the stele.

One was in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the other in Akkadian, using cuneiform script.

The cuneiform script proper developed from pictographic proto-writing in the late 4th millennium BC.

The cuneiform script proper emerges out of pictographic proto-writing in the later 4th millennium.