Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

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

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

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

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The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

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A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series of correlations between the designs engraved on these cylinders, dating back around six thousand years, and some of the ...

A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series of correlations between the designs engraved on these ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...