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

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia ...

But the researchers say that designs and images from the seals that related to the transport of goods, like textiles and pottery, may have evolved into corresponding proto-cuneiform signs and script. ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ancient accounting and the “proto-cuneiform script” from the city of ...

Love and emotions have been universal themes throughout human history, expressed in diverse ways but with commonalities ...

The history of emotions reveals fascinating shifts in how different cultures conceptualized feelings. In medieval Europe, ...

Researchers at the University of Bologna claim to have bridged the gap between symbolism and writing, therefore prehistory and history, in a significant study of the evolution of human thought.

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization ... on these 6,000-year-old cylinders and pictographs in proto-cuneiform script – which came before cuneiform – that emerged in Uruk.

Born in 1840 to a modest London family, George Smith not only became an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned contemporary notions about ...