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

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

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

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

This week, uncover the secrets of Pompeii through ancient DNA, meet an adventurous emperor penguin, seek signs of mysterious ...

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

A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it traveled ... A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium ...

It has gradually been pieced together, as the cuneiform tablets have been unearthed and deciphered ... What we are being offered is, after all, poetry, and it therefore has an obligation to shape ...

From tummy-smoothing shorts and underwear to waist-cinching bodysuits and slips. Jenna Igneri is a fashion and beauty writer who has worked in the media space for over a decade. In addition to ...

We will learn how archaeologists and codebreakers deciphered these inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...