How Writing Changed The World
Jun 28th, 2008 | By Kay Elizabeth | Category: Writing and WritersEver wonder how it all started and where? This Live Science article explains it.
Humans had been speaking for a couple hundred thousand years before they got the inspiration or nerve to mark their ideas down for posterity.
But when a Mesopotamian people called the Sumerians finally did scratch out a few bookkeeping symbols on clay tablets [...]