Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking prehistoric imagery to the inception of written communication. Researchers from ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...

Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...

A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

U.S. spy satellite imagery has led archeologists to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that was decisive in the spread of Islam in the region.

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched ...

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 ...

It’s also a possibility that some civilizations rotted from the inside through a general system collapse. Scholars have noted ...

A new study by Dr. Linda Evans and her colleagues from Macquarie University, Australia, published in the Journal of Egyptian ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq ... to document endangered archaeological sites in the region. It also comes at the time of a resurgence of archeology ...