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   Tablets with Semi-Pictographic Writing
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   Writing emerged in many different cultures and in numerous locations
   inventing the earliest form of writing, which appeared ca. 3500B.C. The
   The writings on these tablets are simple pictures, or pictograms, which
   clay with a reed stylus. This wedge-shaped writing is called cuneiform.
   The invention of writing was the dawn of the information revolution.
   all inventions, writing emerged because there was a need for it. In