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