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 ...

Among the most notable finds is a tiny, finely crafted anthropomorphic clay head featuring an elongated skull, slanting eyes ...

A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...

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