Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Researchers have finally solved how to play a 4,500-year-old Mesopotamian board game discovered years ago at Shahr-i Sokhta, ...

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

It allowed people to track the production and trade of everyday items, especially agricultural and textile items. But before ...