Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...

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

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

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

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

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

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

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Co-authors Kathryn Kelley and Mattia Cartolano from the University of Bologna's Department of Classical Philology and Italian ...