Comparison Of Cuneiform And Hieroglyphic Writings

The two writings hieroglyphic and cuneiform come from ancient history and are no longer used today. The style cuneiform was a popular used language among others but it was mostly used where the Sumerian city of Uruk is. They actually advanced this writing method. Cuneiform is a type of writing that is shaped stylus, they used a pointed tool such as a reed to make signs imprinted on a piece of clay. It’s very similar to hieroglyphic writing with the pictorial concept still in mind. Hieroglyphic writing was used by the Ancient Egyptians written in rows or columns and can be read from left to right or from right to left the writing included characters in the form of pictures. Both writings have made a mark in history bringing us to where we are

but was adapted in the Akkadian language. Before it came to be many other writings influenced it such as the Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, and Hurrians, and of course the Akkadians. “Cuneiform isn't a single writing system, however. The term actually encompasses several different kinds of writing systems that developed over time, all of which consisted of individual signs made up of wedge shapes.” Cuneiform was known to be one of the earliest known languages that had been written. The language was read from left to right like how we read today, cuneiform was invented to record business activities but language has adapted so much and cuneiform is never used. Today theirs a large possibility of undiscovered cuneiform writings in history and it’s told there are only 2 million cuneiform tablets that have been understood. The famous ancient writing system comes from “The Latin cuneus, the term means “wedge” and “shape” respectively.” After using a reed to make signs imprinted on clay, they would lay it out in the sun for it to harden and become permanent. This method was also able to be imprinted onto stone, metal and wax

There happens to be “various categories of cuneiform documents,-administrative, legal, epistolary, historiography, literary and scholarly.” (Cooper, pages 78-80). Just like other ancient methods and our writings today the Sumerians were able to use their writing method to record events and follow astronomy. The symbols cuneiform writing used represented sound first and concept second. Cuneiform is only understood by few, at one point around 1,000 A.D., it’s told it had become extinct. Researchers finally were able to make out what the writings meant or how they did it around the 19th century when it was translated into