In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

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

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets ...

Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

UK, Nov 13 - Researchers discover that ancient Mesopotamian trade seals could contain the first clues to the world's oldest ...

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk. These include symbols ...

According to the researchers, several symbols engraved on stone "cylinder ... to the transport of jars and cloth between different Mesopotamian cities, probably involving temple institutions.