A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...