The writing above the map tells of the creation of the Earth, and the map itself seems to give an aerial view of Mesopotamia. On the tablet, Mesopotamia is surrounded by a double circle that is ...

On the UNESCO world heritage map for five years China archaeological ruins of Liangzhu in parallel with the Aegean Civilization in Greece has gaine ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...

Long before alphabets came into existence, human civilisations used different means to communicate such as images and ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

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The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

What appears to be evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders ...

Although far from the oldest writing we have found, these cylinders are 500 years older than any previously known example of alphabetic script, if that is indeed what they carry.

The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...

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