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

Year-Old Finger-Length Clay Cylinders Etched With Oldest Known Alphabet Discovered in Ancient Syrian City Researchers believe ...

Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing ...

Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate designs left behind by engraved cylindrical seals that were rolled ...

Archaeologists uncovered an old monument in Tel Shimron, Israel, revealing a rare Minoan jug and Canaanite artifacts of ancient religious practices. Credit: wikimedia commons / Hanay CC BY 4.0 ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...

The earliest known writing system, called cuneiform, was invented around 3100 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Before cuneiform, however, humans used a simpler writing system called proto-cuneiform that ...

"They also show how the meaning originally associated with these designs was integrated into a writing system." Showing how shapes, designs and images evolved into a more cohesive writing system not ...

Enterprise and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement (ODASA(P)) recently achieved another key milestone with the modernized Army Contract Writing System (ACWS).