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 ...

The findings suggest that the development of writing was more geographically diverse and occurred earlier than previously ...

A team of archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, led by Professor Glenn Schwartz, has discovered small clay cylinders ...