Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

I'm standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep's liver, looking for marks on its smooth surface. People crowd around ...

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

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

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the ... The key features were a deep trench, two fortresses and an ancient river that was reportedly once forded by ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

Developed in its classic form in Babylon, entrail divination was practised throughout ancient Mesopotamia, the written history of which spans from the 3rd millennium BC to the 1st century AD.