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

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

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

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

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The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

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 ...

Three researchers from the University of Bologna contributed to this longstanding debate in the latest issue of Antiquity, ...

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 ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...