Cuneiform LÚ, (or lú as rendered in some texts) is found as a Sumerogram in the Epic of Gilgamesh (an Epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia). It also has a common usage in the 1350 BC Amarna letters as the Sumerogram for "man".Cuneiform was a writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).
Cuneiform was a writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq).