Like the cylindrical seals, proto-cuneiform was used for accounting and bureaucratic purposes but many of the 800 identifiable proto-cuneiform pictographs aren’t yet decipherable. "The close ...

Different symbols were even used to brand specific commodities. This remarkable discovery helped researchers decipher how the ...

and what it suggests about the advancements of ancient civilizations that developed technologies such as accounting and writing thousands of years ago. Uruk, now known as Warka, was one of the ...

Accounting’s history is as old as civilisation itself, evolving from simple record-keeping to sophisticated systems powered by innovative technology. In ...