The symbols, made of glazed brick, were used to decorate the façades of temples in Dūr-Šarrukīn, which briefly served as the capital of Assyria, a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia.

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in ...

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 ...

In some places, only three symbols were found – the lion, the tree and the plough. Here, using a mix of Assyrian and Sumerian, also spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, the same principle still ...