Silima Hemeen!

Mungu Theanne
Maia-am!
 I am an ancient
Sumerian Scholar or
Inventor and today, I
will show and tell you
about our inventions-the
clay tablet and the
cuneiform writing.
I have with me a replica
of our inventions. This is
made of clay, shells of
pistachio nuts and old
juice boxes.
 In the olden times, we
used pictographs to
communicate with each
other.
 Then in the Ancient
Near East, clay tablets
were used as a writing
medium.
The ancient sumerians
were the first people to
invent a writing script
with symbols to
represent sounds.
 It was around 3500 BC
when the earliest writing
started.
 The script was called
cuneiform which means
wedge shape. Prayers
and accounts were
written in the clay
tablets using cuneiform.
 Cuneiform characters
were imprinted on a wet
clay tablet with a stylus
often made of reed.
 Once written upon, many
tablets were dried in the sun or
air, remaining fragile. They were
also soaked in water and
recycled into new clean tablets.
These inventions made the lives of
Sumerians easy and more
advanced. They recorded their
history and added more facts in
their memory with the help of the
clay tablets and cuneiform writing.