CUNEIFORM

noun

16 Scrabble

20 WWF

C 3

U 1

N 1

E 1

I 1

F 4

O 1

R 1

M 3

Definition

An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clay tablets.