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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...