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

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

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

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The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials' wooden coffins and linen wrappings. However, some items such as jewelry in women's burials were found intact, including a finely crafted ...

He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials’ wooden coffins and linen wrappings. However, some items such as jewelry in women’s burials were found intact, including a finely crafted ...

He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials’ wooden coffins and linen wrappings. However, some items such as jewelry in women’s burials were found intact, including a finely crafted necklace ...

Then an ancient 14.5 kilometer-long wall was discovered at the site ... Al-Natah was still small compared to cities in Mesopotamia or Egypt during the period. But in these vast expanses of desert, it ...