animal paintings

animal paintings
ballet paintings
The next step then, was a script now called cuneiform. Cuneiform was a series of wedge-shaped signs, developed from the pictures, but used sounds to represent objects and ideas. Although it also contained hundreds of characters, it was also more versatile. Cuneiform spread quickly from the Sumerians, to the Assyrians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hittites, Hurrians and the Urartu.It was used for thousands of years, until as recently the first century B.C., when it was replaced by the much simpler Aramaic system.But the Sumerians left an impression that lasts until this day. Scholars say ancient Persian was derived from cuneiform, and one of the earliest legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi, was written in cuneiform