6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
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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.
Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...
Humans had the write stuff 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, new evidence suggests
The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...