Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

The tokens could be pressed into wet clay, creating a symbol ... cylinder seals from a wide area of south-west Asia, ...

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5) in the journal Antiquity. Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were rolled across clay tablets to print their motifs on them — often to verify a ...

Their findings were published on Tuesday, November 5th in the journal “Antiquity”. Cylinder seals were used for thousands of years across Mesopotamia. People would roll these seals over clay tablets ...

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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 ...