Researchers at the University of Bologna claim to have bridged the gap between symbolism and writing, therefore prehistory and history, in a significant study of the evolution of human thought.

a script that emerged in Mesopotamia over five thousand years ago. These connections not only shed light on the first invention of writing, but could also help decipher additional proto-cuneiform ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... and some of the signs in the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, located in what is now southern Iraq ...

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

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The script’s patterned dashes were not immediately recognised as writing. The name “cuneiform” (a Latin ... on the rich history of Egypt and Mesopotamia was embraced by many, but viewed ...

For example, the Brahmi script from India was 'cracked' in the 1830s; cuneiform scripts (characterized by wedge-shaped impressions in clay) from Mesopotamia in the second half of the nineteenth ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...