It's important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Researchers have linked symbolism to writing, bridging prehistory and history in a significant study of human thought ...

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

New research traces Mesopotamian origins of writing back to trade symbols, shedding light on the evolution of written ...

Small settlements scattered throughout the region show signs of trade, fortification.

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

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

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims and the army of the Sassanid Persian dynasty during a period of Muslim expansion. The ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

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 ...

A trip to Bucks County isn't really complete without a trip back 100 years to life in Pennsylvania when things were simpler.