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		wl on Aug 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn ... The Narmer Palette (Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Kushim Tablet (cuneiform) date to the late fourth millennium BCE.

kurupt213 on Aug 29, 2022 [–]

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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