World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...
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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
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Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
The earliest known writing system is thought to be Sumerian cuneiform, which grew up around the region of present-day Iraq, ...
Humans had the write stuff 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, new evidence suggests
The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...
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Undeciphered symbols may be key to origin of world's oldest writing system
Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...
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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia ...
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World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.