The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

The study of ancient writing, though not an institutionalised field itself, has developed over the past two decades into a dynamic domain of inquiry across specialisms. The series aims to reflect and ...

AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...

A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...

The Ancient Egyptians developed hieroglyphics ... Society of Overseas Research’s Annual Meeting. “The older known writing systems use symbols or characters to represent words, but also ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Ancient Cypriot writing was found on a wall dating from the 6th century BC at an archeological dig in Palaepaphos, the ...