These could be the earliest discovered spindle whorls, technology that was then seemingly lost for 4000 years.

Israeli archeologists use models based on their find to spin flax into yarn, indicating these pebbles were used as a version ...

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

Three researchers from the University of Bologna contributed to this longstanding debate in the latest issue of Antiquity, ...

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After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone in the development of ...

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 ...

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Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...

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

A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...