Who invented writing?

Question:

Who invented writing?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There are two very closely timed advents in writing.

The first is in China, circa 4500BCE with the old Bone counters.

Second is the early Mesopotamian (Sumerian and early Akkadian) Bullae (Clay Shape markers) or symbol images.

However, both of these were not writing in the strict sense, but counters used as markers of quantity and type for bookkeeping purposes.

The earliest attested writing is the Sumerian Cuneiform writing of southern Mesopotamia (Present day Iraq) circa 4000BCE.

This was followed quickly in the Nile valley (Circa 3800) by the advent of early old kingdom hieroglyphic materials in stone.