According to the researchers, several symbols engraved on stone "cylinder seals" were developed into signs used in ... that ...

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

She told Live Science that although her efforts ... across pre-literate tablets. On seals, people and animals move towards a ...

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

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

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

Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...

Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...

According to the researchers, several symbols engraved on stone "cylinder seals" were developed into ... link the one with the other," he told Live Science in an email. "Furthermore, several ...

Researchers conducting a careful analysis of proto-cuneiform symbols were surprised to uncover similarities when they studied the engravings of cylinder seals invented in Uruk in 4400 BC and used ...