Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking prehistoric imagery to the inception of written communication. Researchers from ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian ...

Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

Irish economist David McWilliams deals with the history of money in his rollicking first book Money: A Story of Humanity, ...

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The N-Dubz singer and self-proclaimed ‘Female Boss’ has survived a drug sting, sex tape, and the rampant misogyny and ...

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writing, and, unfortunately, taxes). From ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt where beer was featured in literature, medicine, ...

Several other regions are labelled in cuneiform writing on the map, he said. new adventure begins all over again!" These included another river, the Euphrates, running through ancient Mesopotamia from ...

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

Ancient Rome, a civilisation and giant of history that continues to influence present day society. Living in the year 2024, we may think that an ancient, classical civilisation that existed in a ...