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 ...

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

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

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

"We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of writing, while continuing to develop into the ...

Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

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 ...