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

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

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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 ...

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

Now, experts have linked early cuneiform symbols to designs that appear on cylinder seals between 4400-3400BC, a millennium ...

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A 31-year-old suspected graffiti tagger is arrested without incident by Kent police. They sealed the suspect's car.