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The World’s Earliest Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘Cylinder Seals’
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research ...
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World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...
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Undeciphered symbols may be key to origin of world's oldest writing system
Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world's oldest writing system and the mysterious, intricate ...
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Key to origins of Mesopotamian writing could be in ancient accounting system
Cylinder seals and proto-cuneiform acted as the accounting system for ancient Mesopotamia in one of the earliest invented ...
5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing
Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder ...
Major discovery on origin of writing in birthplace of civilization
Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of ...
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Army reaches another key milestone with its modernized contract writing system
Enterprise and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement (ODASA(P)) recently achieved another key milestone with the modernized Army Contract Writing System (ACWS).
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Mysterious engraved pictographs may have led to the earliest form of writing
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Researchers have ...
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Major discovery on origin of writing in birthplace of civilization
In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...
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World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Researchers have ...