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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs ... knowledge of the existence of writing — a few times in world history, Ferrara said.
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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.
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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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World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Before cuneiform, however, there was an archaic script using abstract pictographic signs ... knowledge of the existence of writing — a few times in world history, Ferrara said.
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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 ...