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By N.S. Gill, About.com Guide to Ancient History since 1997

Cuneiform Writing

Monday July 7, 2003
Want to learn a bit about the ancient Sumerian wedge-shaped writing? Here you will find pictures of actual cuneiform tablets, a line-drawn version of the symbols pressed into the tablets, their transliteration, and their meaning.
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