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

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

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

By comparing early markings used for business purposes to 'proto' cuneiform, we can say language transitioned from symbols to ...

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

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

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

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

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

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of ...

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

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.