At the Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait, Polish archaeologists have discovered a clay figurine that is 7,000 years old and ...

At the Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait, Polish archaeologists have discovered a clay figurine that is 7,000 years old, ...

During recent excavations at Bahra 1 in Kuwait, archaeologists found a rare figurine, pottery evidence, and insights into the ...

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 ...

Among the most notable finds is a tiny, finely crafted anthropomorphic clay head featuring an elongated skull, slanting eyes ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Given that each vessel could support focaccia loaves as heavy as 6.6 lbs, scientists surmise these breads were likely eaten ...

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 ...

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 ...