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 ...

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

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

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

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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.

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

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