Explain briefly the Mesopotamian script.

The Mesopotamians developed a script of their own called "cuneiform" as the symbols used were wedge shaped ['cuneus' in Latin means wedge]. They used to write from right to left. But at that time, they had neither the paper nor the pen or pencil to write. So they used to write on wet clay tablets with a stylus made of reeds or bones. To preserve the written text, they used to bake these tablets in fire so that each tablets served as a page of a book. Several such clay tablets made a complete book.