In 1849 archaeologists found 14 clay tablets with cuneiform writing during excavations in Iraq, the translation of these ...

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that ...

Mesopotamia was a region of West Asia where present-day Iraq is located. The Sumerians were among the earliest civilizations to inhabit the region and they’re credited with some of the most life ...

Some of the seals examined in the new study date to about 4400 B.C. — more than 1,000 years before the development of writing. "We focused on seal imagery that originated before the invention of ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago.

Sumerian cuneiform, the oldest known writing system in the world, is one prime example of such an evolved writing system. Sumerian cuneiform may have begun around 8000 B.C. in the farming villages of ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

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 ...

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Smith Writes An Interdisciplinary Student Journal. Smith Writes is an interdisciplinary, multi-genre journal featuring the work of first-year Smith College students in writing-intensive courses. It is ...