This location seems to be home to some of the earliest examples of urbanization as well ... a predecessor to written language known as proto-cuneiform script as well as pictographic signs.

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped ... When did writing develop? The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

When they compared symbols on the cylinder seals with those used in the proto-cuneiform writing system, they found several matches. For example, on both preliterate cylinder seals and proto ...