Visual Timeline: Script

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3500 BCE: First written evidence of religion in the world recorded on Sumerian tablets.
 
3200 BCE: Hieroglyphic script developed in Egypt.
 
 
2150 BCE - 1400 BCE: The tales of Gilgamesh written which inform The Epic of Gilgamesh
 
2000 BCE: Minoan hieroglyphic script is invented.
 
1700 BCE: Minoan Linear A script.
 
1600 BCE: Canaanite alphabet.
 
1400 BCE: Ugaritic alphabet of 30 letters is invented.
 
1100 BCE: Phoenician alphabet.
 
 
1000 BCE: Death of Ahiram (or Ahirom) of Byblos, whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet.
 
647 BCE - 629 BCE: Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
 
 
350 CE - 950 CE: Estimated use of the Ogham in Ireland and southwestern England.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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