and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

Cuneiform, one of the oldest forms of writing, was used across the ancient ... the economic structure and state system of the Late Bronze Age," said Mehmet Ersoy, Turkey's minister of culture ...