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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old ... from the late seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia. “Shared ...
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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...