The first written proofs

Proca Antonia-Mariana
Zamfi r Lavinia
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 Introduction
When languages had first began, it was common place to use symbols to express
what you need to convey onto a surface. From depictions of animals, limbs,
tools, it was an efficient way of marking down certain aspects to other people
while also being universal, due to symbols being drawings of real life aspects

This had span for many years for quite a lengthy amount of time, originating as
far back as 35,000 BC. This estimation is quite impressive to see how far
languages has come, considering that there hadn't been anything such as
characters or letters, it was purely drawings for the general public to
understand.

Originally, it was a simple concept, however as time went on these writing

techniques slowly got more advanced, due to different languages across the
world, eventually leading to the mentioned letters and characters being put to
use.
 Mesopotamian writing
It is wildly agreed upon that the earliest found proof of writing for others to understand
had happened 5,500 years ago, which is different from the alternate writing style
that took place in 35,000 BC as mentioned in the previous slide, having that being
part of 'Upper Palaeolithic', consisting of a wide range of symbols to just convey
about any hunted animals.

The writing style that took place 5,500 years ago would be known as 'Mesopotamian',
originating from Iraq. This is much more complex compared to Palaeolithic, as
Mesopotamian has a much wider range of characters used in conjunction with one
another, being the main reason why this is considered as the earliest form of writing.
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As with the wheel, cities and law codes, the earliest examples of written
literature appear to have originated in ancient Mesopotamia.

The Sumerian civilization first developed writing around 3400 B.C.,

when they began making markings on clay tablets in a script known
as cuneiform. Their texts usually consisted of economic and
administrative documents, but by the third millennium B.C.,
Sumerian scribes were also copying down essays, hymns, poetry and
myths. Two of their oldest known literary works are the “Kesh
Temple Hymn” and the “Instructions of Shuruppak,” both of which
exist in written versions dating to around 2500 B.C. The former is an
ancient ode to the Kesh temple and the deities that inhabited it, while
the latter is a piece of “wisdom literature” that takes the form of
sagely advice supposedly handed down from the Sumerian king
Shuruppak to his son, Ziusudra.
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One of Shuruppak’s proverbs warns the boy not to “pass judgment when you drink beer.”
Another counsels that “a loving heart maintains a family; a hateful heart destroys a family.”

While Shuruppak’s fatherly wisdom is one of the most ancient examples of written literature,
history’s oldest known fictional story is probably the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a mythic poem
that first appeared as early as the third millennium B.C. The adventure-filled tale centers on a
Sumerian king named Gilgamesh who is described as being one-third man and two-thirds god

Over the course of twelve clay tablets’ worth of text, he goes on a classic hero’s journey that sees
him slay monsters, rub elbows with the gods and search for the key to immortality—all with
predictably tragic results. The Epic of Gilgamesh started out as a series of Sumerian poems
and tales dating back to 2100 B.C., but the most complete version was written around the
12th century B.C. by the Babylonians. The story was later lost to history after 600 B.C., and
it wasn’t until the mid-19th century that archaeologists finally unearthed a copy near the Iraqi
city of Mosul. Since then, scholars have hailed the 4,000-year-old epic as a foundational text
in world literature.
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