Books CN136481 Hoffman, Joel M. (2004). In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York University Press. Chapter 3. Jean-Jacques Glassner (2003). The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. Johns Hopkins University Press. Late 20th century sources Andrew Robinson, The Story of Writing. Thames & Hudson 1995 (second edition: 1999). Hans J. Nissen, P. Damerow, R. Englund, Archaic Bookkeeping, University of Chicago Press, 1993, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Before Writing, Vol. I: From Counting to Cuneiform. University of Texas Press, 1992. Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Home page, How Writing Came About, University of Texas Press, 1992, . Saggs, H., 1991. Civilization Before Greece and Rome. Yale University Press. Chapter 4. Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge University Press, 1986 Earlier 20th century sources David Diringer Writing. New York: Praeger. 1962. Otto E. Neugebauer, Abraham Joseph Sachs, Albrecht Götze. Mathematical Cuneiform Texts. Pub. jointly by the American Oriental Society and the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1945. Smith, William Anton. The Reading Process. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. vol. 28, pp. 852–853. Cambridge, England: University Press, 1911. "Writing". Clodd, Edward. The Story of the Alphabet. Library of useful stories. D. Appleton, 1910. External links Cuneiform cdli:wiki: Assyriological tools for specialists in cuneiform studies General History of Writing. historian.net The World's Writing Systems, all 294 known writing systems, each with a typographic reference glyph and Unicode status Denise Schmandt-Besserat HomePage Children of the Code: A Brief History of Writing – Online Video Broadcasts Cracking the Maya Code. NOVA, Public Broadcasting Service. (Timeline (flash)) BBC on tortoise shells discovered in China Fragments of pottery discovered in modern Pakistan Egyptian hieroglyphs c. 3000 BCE