Cuneiform Writing

the name applied to the wedge-shaped characters of the inscriptions on old Babylonian and Persian monuments; sometimes also described as “ arrow-headod’ or “nail-headed” characters. They appear to have been originally of the nature of 5 er da and to have been invented by the primitive Akkadian inhabitants of Chaldea, from whom ~ were borrowed by the conquering Babylonians and A yrians, The first date that can be a igned to the use of cuneiform writing is about 3800 B.-C., and its use was continued until after the birth of Christ.