Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols Comparison of the 'fringed cloth' motif and proto-cuneiform signs. ( Kelley et al., Antiquity , 2024 ) ...

A tantalizing, but badly damaged tablet dating back to, at least, 5079 BC could predate the earliest known human writing by millennia. That's if researchers can decode it. Known to archeologists ...

But Schwartz, over time, began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet dating to the Bronze Age. After the discovery of the first artifact, the ...

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

Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest known alphabet. The alphabetic writing system was identified on finger-length clay cylinders excavated from a tomb ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.