Suggested Earliest Writing
Clay tablets unearthed at Harappa, which were carbon dated 3300-3200 BCE., contain trident shaped and plant like markings, and they are suggested as a possible earliest writings any where in the world,as opined by Dr. Richard Meadow of Harvard University and Director, Harappa Archeological Research Project. This primitive writing is placed slightly earlier than primitive writings of Sumerians of Mesopotamia, dated c.3100 BCE. These markings have similarities to what later became Indus Script. This discovery also suggest that earliest writings by mankind developed independently in three places, viz. Harappa, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt between c.3500 BCE and 3100 BCE.
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