"While Mesopotamia is still the cradle of civilization in the sense that urban ... At Gonur in Turkmenistan, the researchers have found seals from Mesopotamia and the Indus region, along with ...

Such cylinder seals were used for millennia ... Cuneiform was developed by the Sumerian civilization that lived in early cities in southern Mesopotamia from about 5500 to 2300 B.C., when it ...

All the major Mesopotamian civilizations, including the Akkadians ... from motifs found on fifth and fourth-millennium cylinder seals—a sort of hollow cylindrical stamp that, when pressed ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing ... as well as small stone cylinder seals that were often used as signatures. Now, academics at Italy’s University ...

"We focused on seal imagery that originated ... Cuneiform was developed by the Sumerian civilization that lived in early cities in southern Mesopotamia from about 5500 to 2300 B.C. The Sumerian ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...