Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were rolled across clay tablets to print their motifs on them — often to verify a transaction or, later ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

A square Indus Valley stamp seal (left) and a lapis lazuli cylinder seal (right) from Mesopotamia An unusually large Dilmun stamp seal, measuring around two inches in diameter, depicts a serpent ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

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 ...

The elite tombs contain bronze daggers and spearheads, cylinder seals, elaborate gold and silver jewelry ... Basur Höyük was positioned between the Mesopotamian cities and the tribal populations of ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of Akkadian ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were in place as far back as 4,000 years ago. Over 200 administrative tablets and around 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

One, a cylinder seal, shows a design of a procession of animals, elephants and rhinoceros with crocodiles, which in subject and convention is both alien to Mesopotamia and referable to the Indus ...