A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...

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

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

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

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

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

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

"We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of writing, while continuing to develop into the ...

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