In Nashville, not far from the center of the country music world, you'll find a bakery that produces bread nearly identical ...

AMMAN - Bronze Age architecture was characterised by city walls constructed from massive stone blocks. To overpower defenders ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...

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Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient “cylinder seals.” ...

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

Welcoming Pope Francis' decision to include St. Isaac of Nineveh, a revered seventh-century mystic and theologian of the ...

It’s important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between pre-writing symbols used to mark objects and more precise marks that establish ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...