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Ancient Origins of Writing Traced to Mysterious 6,000-Year-Old Symbols
While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...
6,000-year-old Mesopotamian artifacts linked to the dawn of writing
Making the jump from using symbols to writing is considered a major development in human cognitive abilities. Tracing how and ...
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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique seals uncover birth of writing
On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...
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The Fertile Crescent, explained
Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...
6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
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 ...
Spy satellite images lead archeologists to the site of a historic battle in Iraq
Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...
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Mesopotamian Civilization and the Origins of the New Testament
In this ground-breaking study, Robin Baker investigates the contribution ancient Mesopotamian theology made to the origins of Christianity. Drawing on a formidable range of primary sources, Baker's ...