cuneiform

To this day, my notes look like something between cuneiform and the lines from furniture on wooden floors after decades of wear and tear.

"Up until now it has been difficult to access the content of many cuneiform tablets at once -- you sort of need to know exactly what you are looking for and where," Mara adds.

Another set of cuneiform tablets detailed how to interpret the motion of celestial bodies.

Many of the earliest documented examples of writing come from languages that used cuneiform script, which featured wedge-shaped characters impressed into clay tablets.

From cuneiform clay tablets to computer keyboards, the writing process has changed very little for thousands of years.