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 ...
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 ...
6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
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Do These Ancient Seals Unlock Clues to the Origins of Writing?
“The findings of this study bridge this divide.” Sumerians weren’t the only prehistoric people to conceive of writing, but as ...
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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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New Findings About Origins of Writing Found in Mesopotamia
New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
Researchers have linked symbolism to writing, bridging prehistory and history in a significant study of human thought ...
Major discovery on origin of writing in birthplace of civilization
Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of ...
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Key to origins of Mesopotamian writing could be in ancient accounting system
Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...
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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.