With over 8 billion people spread across the Earth's nearly 25 million square miles of habitable land, proving one's identity ...

This suggests that Dilmun acted as middleman between Mesopotamia and the civilization of the Indus Valley in Pakistan. In both places have been found a few peculiar, disk-shaped stone seals.

The sealings, he says, are broken impressions on clay of the seal of Lugal-ushumgal, the governor of Lagash, a city close to Girsu, who was directly appointed by Naram-Sin and reported to him.

At first glance, a cylinder seal might not seem like much—just a small, intricately carved piece of stone or ceramic. But these objects, no larger than a cup, are imbued with a profound significance.

Clay seals are rare finds, but they’ve become more common since 2005. They are small—often just the size of a fingertip. And they’re made out of clay, basically the same stuff that ...

Deciphering the Indus script could reveal if Indus seals were the first currency. These seals, diversified in their uses, might have economic significance and depicted guilds or clans. Interaction ...

There were two main types of seals used in the ancient Near East: stamp seals (which came first) and cylinder seals. The development of cylinder seals resolved several important issues associated with ...

Representations of people weaving on a cylinder seal from the Mesopotamian city of Susa bear a similar form, as do artifacts from the city of Uruk. Examples of the netted-vessel and fringed cloth ...

Cylinder Seals and Proto-Cuneiform Among the first cities to emerge in Mesopotamia, Uruk was an immensely important center throughout the fourth millennium BCE, exerting influence over a large region ...

Such seals have already intrigued researchers. University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Holly Pittman, who is cited in the new study, posited the link 30 years ago. She told Live Science that ...