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These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Scientists May Have Finally Found the Origin of One of History’s Most Important Inventions
For an invention so world-changing as the wheel, scholars know surprisingly little about its origin story—but there is no ...
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 Invention That Changed School Forever
Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...
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The origin of writing in Mesopotamia is tied to designs engraved on ancient cylinder seals
Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...
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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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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 ...
Designs on ancient stone cylinders correspond to origin of writing in Mesopotamia, researchers discover
The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...
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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
“The close relationship between ancient sealing and the invention of writing in southwest Asia has long been (recognized), ...
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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 ...
6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...