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Discuss the script used by the ancient Mesopotamians.

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The first writing of the ancient Mesopotamians, was in the form of pictograph signs, symbols and pictures. But drawing pictures was not an easy thing.

Later on, they specified particular signs for some particular word and thing. Their next step was to make these scripts phonetic. They used to write with a stylus made of reed on clay tablets which they baked until they became hard.

The script used by the Mesopotamians is known as cuneiform script. 

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