5,300 years ago · approximate date
Writing is invented
Marks pressed into clay become the first written records.
The earliest writing began as a way to track goods and trade, then grew to record law, story and belief. With writing, knowledge could outlive the person who held it.
- Period
- Quaternary
- Earth's history already passed
- 99.9999 percent
- 4.54 kilometres
- 5.3 millimetres from the end
- One day
- 23:59:59
- One year
- December 31, 23:59
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Source to be verified