6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...
Good Time To Recall What Exactly Makes A Republic
The establishment of the United States marked the reemergence of the large-scale republican state. In 1787, after the ...
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Unraveling the ancient past, one tablet at a time
In the half-dark of a third-floor office, Danielle Levy lifted a clay tablet out of its box. Carefully examining it with ...
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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Origin Of Written Language Revealed In 5,500-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts
W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...
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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 ...
Evidence of human writing 1,000 years earlier than previously thought
Symbols found on 6,000-year-old clay cylinders used by ancient accountants may have paved way to earliest form of writing a ...
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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Do These Ancient Seals Unlock Clues to the Origins of Writing?
A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.
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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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Ancient Mesopotamian clay seals offer clues to the origin of writing
Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...
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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 ...