Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and an expert in cuneiform, takes a look at a 2900-year-old ... The diagram is clear and easy to read with minimal fuss. I’ve included a few examples ...

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

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

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

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

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

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, ...

The earliest known writing system, called cuneiform, was invented around 3100 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Before cuneiform, however, humans used a simpler writing system called proto-cuneiform that ...