Victoria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 86,793. Its county seat is Victoria. Victoria County is included in the Victoria, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sumer, an ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia, is believed to be the place where written language was first invented around 3200 BC. Limestone Kish tablet from Sumer with pictographic writing; may be the earliest known writing, 3500 BC.
Cuneiform writing was humankind's earliest form of writing. Created in Mesopotamia, an ancient civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, sometime around 3000 BC, cuneiform was based on earlier pictographs.