Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

When did writing develop? The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the river valleys of Egypt ...

Thus, they claim a structural link can be drawn between these seals and the earliest forms of writing in Uruk. As one of the ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft Word. In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Three inscribed tablets found in Romania may be 1,000 years older than the oldest examples of writing from Mesopotamia. They are probably not that old, but they do illuminate the contacts between ...