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 ...

The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

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Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

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

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Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...