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The Sumerian invention of cuneiform—a Latin term literally meaning “wedge-shaped”— dates to sometime around 3400 B.C. In its most sophisticated form, it consisted of several hundred characters that ancient scribes used to write words or syllables on wet clay tablets with a reed stylus. The tablets were then baked or left in the sun to harden. The Sumerians seem to have first developed cuneiform for the mundane purposes of keeping accounts and records of business transactions, but over time it blossomed into a full-fledged writing system used for everything from poetry and history to law codes and literature. Since the script could be adapted to multiple languages, it was later used over the course of several millennia by more than a dozen different cultures. In fact, archaeologists have found evidence that Near East astronomical texts were still being written in cuneiform as recently as the first century A.D. Most recently, many of these ancient writings can be traced all over the globe. Initially, the scribes preferred clay when writing onto a surface as it would dry and harden in the sun but left the record in a precarious state as these tablets would be fragile and prone to cracks and breaks. As the descendants of the tribes spread all over the world the holy sect of the Sumerians started to use Gi-Kiram(also Ki or Kia in place of Gi; in english: Earth Orchard); (a term used for a type of mineral used in the growing of plants and crops; today known as Potash), They used the mineral 'Gi-Kiram' with the Clay to create a tablet for writing that would not shatter and crack so easily. They followed the natural veins of the mineral in the earth as it was vital for survival and it was often exchanged like gold, myhrr and other valued metals and spices.

As archaeologists have followed the migration of these ancient tribes and worked to interpret the messages and history written on the tablets; the most major discovery has come in a most unlikely geographical location.

Allan Potash Mine Saskatchewan, Canada.