The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

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Ancient DNA sequenced from bone fragments preserved ... seals that were rolled across clay to leave behind motifs for accounting purposes. The correlating images relate to the trade and transport ...

and what it suggests about the advancements of ancient civilizations that developed technologies such as accounting and writing thousands of years ago. Uruk, now known as Warka, was one of the ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system. Now, a study by Italian researchers reveals that some of these earliest proto-cuneiform signs may have ...

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Like the cylindrical seals, proto-cuneiform was used for accounting and bureaucratic purposes but many of the 800 identifiable proto-cuneiform pictographs aren’t yet decipherable. "The close ...

Example of a cylinder seal (left) and its design imprinted onto clay (right) (Franck Raux © 2001 Grand Palais RMN, Musée du Louvre via Courthouse News) A jade green ...