Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... "The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge this ...

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

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

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 series ...

Researchers at the University of Bologna claim to have bridged the gap between symbolism and writing, therefore prehistory and history ... and onward in Northern Mesopotamia.

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were ... writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge this ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... paid for by those who can afford it. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... "The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge this ...