Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

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

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

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

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

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

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

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time ...

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