Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ... sign of writing but it also tells you about the growth of the early beginnings of a state. You’ve got a civil service here, starting ...

Instead, these tablets are written in the early cuneiform writing system. The tablets were identified within a large state archive building that was constructed from traditional mud-brick walls.

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...