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In ancient Mesopotamia, also known as the Fertile Crescent, the writing system they utilized was called cuneiform which came about in the late 4th millennium BC in Sumer. Cuneiform preceded hieroglyphs, which was the writing system utilized by the ancient Egyptians. Cuneiform consisted of wedge shaped characters and pictorial representations impressed in slabs of clay with blunt edges of reeds. It is one of the earliest known writing systems, and the first known written language.

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