Petroglyphic

Caverved or scratches signs or simply figures that are carved on rockMany of the petroglyphys are pictographs, and may be ideographs, or symbols to represent ideas or concepts

Early Sumerian Pictographic tablet

The archaic pictographic script contained the seeds for the development of writing. Information is structured into grid zones by horizontal and vertical division

Cuneiform

Innovation radically altering the nature of writing called cuneiform (from the latin for "wedge-shaped")

Code of Hammurabi

(cuneiform)

Initially written between 1792 and 1750 B.C.  Hamamurabi's reformed law code were erected in the main temple of Marduk at Babylon and in other cities.

"a thief stealing from a child is to be put to death"

Mesopotamian Visual Identification

Cylinder seals  provided a forgery-proof method for sealing documents and proving their aunthenticity

"trademark" for the owner

Can be seen as an intial form of printing