Cuneiform Timeline

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c. 5000 BCE

Cuneiform script developed by Sumerians.
c. 3500 BCE

First written evidence of religion in the world recorded on Sumerian tablets.
c. 3500 BCE

First written evidence of religion in Sumerian cuneiform.
3000 BCE

Cuneiform script refined.
2285 BCE - 2250 BCE

Life of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and world's first author known by name.
c. 2150 BCE - c. 1400 BCE

The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets.
c. 1900 BCE - c. 1600 BCE

Composition of The Descent of Inanna.
c. 1900 BCE - c. 1600 BCE

The Descent of Inanna written down.
c. 1640 BCE - c. 1700 BCE

Written form of the Atrahasis Myth of the Great Flood.
c. 1640 BCE - c. 1700 BCE

The Atrahasis written down.
c. 647 BCE - c. 629 BCE

Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh.
c. 100 BCE

Cuneiform abandoned for alphabetic script.