This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

First used around 5 500 years ago, the Sumerian script is the oldest writing system on record. It went through major evolutionary changes during its lifetime and became known as cuneiform.