These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

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 ...

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

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

Three researchers from the University of Bologna contributed to this longstanding debate in the latest issue of Antiquity, ...

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

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

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...

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

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of ...

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

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