Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

With that in mind, let’s look at the most ingenious inventions created by ancient cultures that have shaped today’s world. Eyeglass wearers have the Assyrians to thank. The Assyrian ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...

A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...

Once a powerhouse of the ancient world, Egypt today faces a range of internal and external challenges that are holding it ...

Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...

Two gold-and-iron artifacts from ancient Spain predated our ability to work with iron. So how did they do it? With ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...