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3,000-Year-Old Tablet May Map Noah’s Ark’s Final Resting Place
In a finding that bridges ancient mythology with historical cartography, the British Museum’s analysis of a 3,000-year-old ...
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.
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 ...
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Undeciphered symbols may be key to origin of world's oldest writing system
Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...
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The oldest ghost depiction uncovered at the British Museum
Dr. Irving Finkel shares insights on the oldest known depiction of a ghost, found on an ancient cuneiform tablet at the ...
5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing
Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.
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Unraveling the ancient past, one tablet at a time
In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...
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Key to origins of Mesopotamian writing could be in ancient accounting system
Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...
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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
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Origin Of Written Language Revealed In 5,500-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts
W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...
6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...