History of writing

WRITING

Writing was invented in the Sumerian city of Uruk around 3300 BC

Pictographic writing
1st kind of writing. It was cuneiform.

Ideographic writing
It's the second kind of cuneiform writing

Phonetic writing
Each symbol corresponds to a sound or syllable

The Rosetta Stone

Found in: Egypt
Found by: Pierre-François Bouchard
Famous by: thanks to it, now we can "read" the Egyptian hieroglyphics

It's wroten in a big stele that we can find in the Louvre museum

There were three groups of persons:
-Free people or awilum
-Servants or mushkenum
-Slaves or wardum

The alphabetic writing: from Phoenician alfabet until our writing