World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
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Do These Ancient Seals Unlock Clues to the Origins of Writing?
A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.
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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs called proto ... independently — ...
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Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System
Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System Researchers at the University of ...
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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs ... knowledge of the existence of writing — a few times in world history, Ferrara said.