When and in Which civilisation started the art of writing for the first time?

Answer 1

The Harappan or Indus civilisation, in what is now Pakistan, about 4-5000 years ago... or Egypt or Mesopotamia at about the same time.

have a look at this article:

Answer 2

Early merchants used clay tokens with pictographs to record the quantities of materials traded or shipped. These tokens date back to about 8,500 B.C. With the high volume of and the repetition inherent in record keeping, pictographs evolved and slowly lost their picture detail. They became abstract-figures representing sounds in spoken communication. The alphabet replaced pictographs between 1700 and 1500 B.C. in the Sinaitic world. The current Hebrew alphabet and writing became popular around 600 B.C. About 400 B.C. the Greek alphabet was developed. Greek was the first script written from left to right. From Greek followed the Byzantine and the Roman (later Latin) writings. In the beginning, all writing systems had only uppercase letters, when the writing instruments were refined enough for detailed faces, lowercase was used as well (around 600 A.D.)

Answer 3

Since human beings become smarter than other animals, they tried to communicate with others... drawing animals....or painting their hands with vegetal juices and printing them on stones..Almost all the studies agree that the first alphabet came from Middle East.. may be Phoenician, but surelly was a Semit alphabet.

Answer 4

Sanskrit is the most ancient written language. The script, called devanagari(language of the gods) is said to have be brought from higher planets in pre-historic times. Sanskrit is often called "the mother of all languages".

Answer 5

Sumerians

Answer 6

the first cultures to make writing were the paleolithic cultures of europe. there is evidence from caves in france and spain for writing as well as on pieces of deer horn for writing around 30,000 years ago. the vinca culture from hungary, bulgaria, romania developed what could be called the first linear script around 8,000 years ago.

Answer 7

I would count Egyptian hieroglyphics as the first writing, don't know if that's the official one though...

Answer 8

the Sumerians with cuneiform script about 34th century BC (if it's not the earliest, it's one of them)

Answer 9

egyptians they were the first to make paper too.