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Scribes in Mesopotamia developed cuneiform, one of humanity's first writing systems.
Around 3300 BCE, administrators in Uruk began pressing wedge-shaped marks into clay tablets to track grain, livestock, and trade goods. What started as simple accounting gradually evolved into a full writing system capable of recording literature, law, and history. This invention changed everything — for the first time, human knowledge could outlast human memory.
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