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

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

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

Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System Researchers at the University of ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest ...

Eannatum commissioned it around 2460 BCE, according to the cuneiform ... of Mesopotamian Civilization At the end of the 18th century, cuneiform script was a complete mystery to European historians.

Artifacts from Mesopotamia ... It was in Uruk that the ⁢ proto-cuneiform system was developed, a fundamental ⁢step in the transition to structured ⁣writing. Before the introduction of ...