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There is nothing to substantiate the claim that Egyptian writing developed contemporarily to Sumerian. Sumer predates Egypt by almost 1,000 years

• wl 4y ago
  The Narmer Palette (Egyptian hieroglyphs) and Kushim Tablet (cuneiform) date to the late fourth millennium BCE.
  • kurupt213 4y ago
    Proto-writing in Sumer predates proto-hieroglyphs in Egypt. It is thought that writing in Egypt was inspired by the ‘idea’ of written communication in Sumer