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 ...

Located in modern-day Khorsabad, Iraq, this ancient Mesopotamian site was home to King Sargón II, ruler of Assyria from 721-704 BCE. One enigma that has intrigued experts for over a century involves a ...

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 ...