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

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

Researchers have linked symbolism to writing, bridging prehistory and history in a significant study of human thought ...

Last week, I wrote 269 words for the back cover of a book I recently completed. After some edits, I thought it was a solid ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE.

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in ...

Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...