Classical scholars from the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" made an unusually large find of seals in an ancient ... the 7th to 4th centuries before Christ were excavated within ...

THE cylinder seal is the typical product of the civilization ... Invented at some period well before 3000 B.C., at the end of what is now called the Uruk period, in the land of Sumer, by men ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on ... "We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of writing, while continuing ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder ... seals examined in the new study date to about 4400 B.C. — more than 1,000 years before ...

Cylinder seals were engraved with patterns and images, then rolled across wet clay to leave indentations. Some were used before the invention of writing. The researchers looked at cylinder seals ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on ... "We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of writing, while continuing ...

A 4,400-year-old cylinder seal dating back to the Early Bronze Age II period has been unearthed in ongoing excavations at Seyitömer Höyük in Kütahya, Turkey. The dating marks it as the oldest ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto ... University of Texas at Austin in her two-volume book Before Writing in 1992. There is some evidence for a role ...