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

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

W hen did humans start “putting pen to paper” and expressing their thoughts through a series of complex symbols? An important ...

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

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

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the ... conflict that halted excavations and led to the looting of tens of thousands of artifacts. In recent years, the ...

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 ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...