They continued, “The designs engraved on cylinder seals are directly connected to proto-cuneiform development in southern Iraq.” “They also show how the meaning originally associated with ...

"Our findings demonstrate that the designs engraved on cylinder seals are directly connected to the development of proto-cuneiform in southern Iraq," Ferrara says. "They also show how the meaning ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...