where were cuneiforms discovered?

Answer 1

Cuneiforms were created by the Sumerians, or people from the southern part of Mesopotamia (modern day southeastern Iraq). Cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract. The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite, Hittite, Hurrian languages, and it inspired the Old Persian and Ugaritic national alphabets.This form of writing was lost to modern knowledge until 1895, when Henry Rawlinson, a British East India Company army officer, found the Behistun inscriptions in Persia. Rawlinson correctly deduced that the Old Persian was a syllabic script and he successfully deciphered it. Working independently of him, the Irish Assyriologist Edward Hincks also contributed to the decipherment.The ability to decipher cuneiforms led to a great wealth of knowledge about the workings of Ancient Persia, it's government, religions, and people.

Answer 2

Mesopotamia, or modern Iraq - it was the local form of writing in ancient times.