Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The origin of writing is linked to designs engraved on cylinder seals 6,000 years ago, according to new research. A series of correlations between engraving on ancient Mesopotamian artifacts and ...

Other myths are represented on inch-high cylinder seals that deliver a visual impact ... believed to control every aspect of life. In the Mesopotamian world, the gods owned the cities, and humans ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

One, a cylinder seal, shows a design of a procession of animals, elephants and rhinoceros with crocodiles, which in subject and convention is both alien to Mesopotamia and referable to the Indus ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian ...