Village painting

Village painting
wine painting
from the United States, Britain, France and Japan, as well as from several Arab countries, are expected to participate. Scholars trace the origins of writing to the Sumerian civilization, which was based in and around what is now modern Iraq in the third millennium B.C.The oldest known writing comes from tablets found in the to the ancient city of Uruk, 155 miles southwest of Baghdad.The tablets — ranging in size from small ones that could be held in the palm of the hand to large ones that could only be held with both hands — were originally made of damp clay and inscribed with a stylus. Objects were represented by pictures, numbers were represented by repeated strokes or circles, and names were indicated by combinations of pictures.Specialists were charged with the duty, which makes the job of historians easier today.