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Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade
Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub ... the first iteration of a writing system comprising ...
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Beyond Mesopotamia
The idea of writing, if not the system itself, was transmitted from Mesopotamia to Egypt and to Elam as Proto-Elamite. Desset, like some Egyptologists, wants to dispute the genetic relationship ...