Editing Cuneiform (section)

====Cuneiforms and hieroglyphs====
[[Geoffrey Sampson]] stated that [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] "came into existence a little after [[Sumerian script]], and, probably, [were] invented under the influence of the latter",<ref name=":12" /> and that it is "probable that the general idea of expressing words of a language in writing was brought to Egypt from Sumerian Mesopotamia".<ref name=":12" /><ref>Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, et al., The Cambridge Ancient History (3rd ed. 1970) pp. 43–44.</ref> There are many instances of [[Egypt-Mesopotamia relations]] at the time of the invention of writing, and standard reconstructions of the [[development of writing]] generally place the development of the Sumerian [[proto-cuneiform]] script before the development of Egyptian hieroglyphs, with the suggestion the former influenced the latter.<ref name="The Times Atlas of World History">{{cite book |last1=Barraclough |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Stone |first2=Norman |title=The Times Atlas of World History |date=1989 |publisher=Hammond |isbn=978-0-7230-0304-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780723003045/page/53 53] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780723003045 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Given the lack of direct evidence for the transfer of writing, "no definitive determination has been made as to the origin of hieroglyphics in ancient Egypt".<ref name=":12" />