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

In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...

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.

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

In a finding that bridges ancient mythology with historical cartography, the British Museum’s analysis of a 3,000-year-old ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...