As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia ... this context gave birth to proto-cuneiform, the first iteration of a writing system comprising hundreds of pictographic signs.

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles. When you purchase through links ...

First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the world's oldest writing system. Show more Greg Jenner is ...

Experts widely agree that cuneiform, invented by the Sumerians in what is now modern-day southern Iraq during the fourth millennium BCE, is the oldest writing system in the world—and as far as ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled a significant link between ancient trade symbols and the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia. Researchers from the University ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on ... 6,000-year-old cylinders and other signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in present day Iraq.

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...