What types of writing were in the states of the Ancient East?

Ancient writing in the east originated about 4 thousand years BC, it was depicted in the form of pictograms and was called cuneiform. At the beginning, they wrote in cuneiform on clay tablets, later they began to use papyrus or other paper for writing. made from reed. Over time, the writing of antiquity has improved. The first ancient alphabet originated in Egypt, it had 22 hieroglyphs. True, the alphabet from which all modern ones, including Latin, resemble, was created in Phoenicians around the 15th century BC.