Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

For an invention so world-changing as the wheel, scholars know surprisingly little about its origin story—but there is no ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

With that in mind, let’s look at the most ingenious inventions created by ancient cultures that have shaped today’s world. Eyeglass wearers have the Assyrians to thank. The Assyrian ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

Scientists have started to decode mysterious symbols found on 5,000-year-old cylinder seals to trace the invention of writing ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...