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

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 ...

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

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

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

A joint team of archaeologists from Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across the site while ...

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 ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

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 ...