Cune Form: The World's Oldest Writing System

Sumerian is like nothing else on the planet except possibly a little bit Greenlandic and Basque. It's a really weird language. Cune form is also worth saying that this is the world's oldest writing system. Each sign has so many meanings, it allows for these clever ways of expressing meaning. So as you said, if you look at it on a photograph, it really just looked like a mishmash.