The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed and was … See more

Writing systems typically satisfy three criteria. Firstly, the writing must have some purpose or meaning to it, and a point must be communicated by the text. Secondly, writing systems make use of specific symbols w… See more

Before the 20th century, most scholarly theories of the origins of writing involved some form of monogenesis, the assumption that writing had been invented only once—namely, as cuneiform in ancient Sumer—and … See more