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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
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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.
5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing
Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...
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Origins of writing traced to 6,000-year-old cylinder seal designs
A new study's findings open new perspectives on understanding the birth of writing. The post Origins of writing traced to ...
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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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 ...
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique seals uncover birth of writing
On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...
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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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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.
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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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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 ...