New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on ... 6,000-year-old cylinders and other signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in present day Iraq.