Writing Cuneiform

by The British Museum

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Unlike modern writing, cuneiform wasn’t written in ink—but was instead pressed into the surface of clay.

From The Getty Museum and The British Museum

Cite this page as: The British Museum, "Writing Cuneiform," in Smarthistory, January 1, 2016, accessed July 22, 2019, https://smarthistory.org/writing-cuneiform/.