jan 1, 2400 BC - Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Description:
Writing medium, especially for writing cuneiform during Bronze and Iron Age. Invented by Sumerians. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 2400 BC
Now
~ 4428 years ago