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

While historians know roughly where and when humans first began writing, they have many unanswered questions about how and ...

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 ...

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An essay is a short piece of writing that is set around a specific topic or a subject. An essay is often used for academics ...

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

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

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

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

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