This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

where markings on clay tokens that served as financial records evolved into cuneiform, one of the earliest forms of writing. Early financial innovations influenced humanity’s concept of time. A ...

Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets ... were the devices that led to the possibility of writing. The clay tokens came in multiple sizes, and are believed to have been shaped ...