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Think of them as an early version of a rubber stamp — but one that rolled across a wet clay tablet rather than pounded onto a paper surface. Scholars then tried to find as many matches as they could ...

Proto-cuneiform tablets helped people in Mesopotamia communicate before the invention of cuneiform, the earliest known writing system. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative “The crucial link that ...

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Cylinder seals, made of stone, were invented in Uruk, an area in southern Iraq.They were engraved with designs and then ...

The authors suggest these motifs were developed into signs in the proto-cuneiform script seen on 5,000-year-old clay tablets from the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk. These include symbols ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script ...