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The Narmer Palette (Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Kushim Tablet (cuneiform) date to the late fourth millennium BCE.


Proto-writing in Sumer predates proto-hieroglyphs in Egypt. It is thought that writing in Egypt was inspired by the ‘idea’ of written communication in Sumer




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