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 ...
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Do These Ancient Seals Unlock Clues to the Origins of Writing?
A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.
Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
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Ancient 4400 B.C. Stone Cylinder Seals Reveal Clues to the World’s First Writing System
The study was published in AntiquityJournal under the title Seals and Signs: Tracing the Origins of Writing in Ancient ...
10 Novels Based on Greek Myths You’ll Love—From Hades to Ariadne!
From epic journeys to powerful characters, Greek mythology has fascinated audiences and readers for centuries. With ancient ...
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1,700-year-old school in Ancient Egypt features Greek text on the wall
The house and school are about 322 kilometres west of the Nile River in the ancient town ... skills to a Greek god-like level ...
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The Day Alexander the Great Visited the Tomb of Achilles
Before battling the mighty Persians, Alexander the Great paid homage at the tomb of the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan ...
Secrets of massive 2,600-year-old temple emerge from hilltop in Greece. Take a look
A joint team of Greek and Austrian archaeologists unearthed a massive ruined temple on a hill near Samikon in 2021 and identified it as a long-lost sanctuary of Poseidon. After several years of work, ...
World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in mysterious, undeciphered symbols
Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient ...
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Gold Artifact With Ancient Greek Inscription Found in Georgia
Archaeologists have uncovered a rare gold artifact inscribed with ancient Greek text dedicated to Jupiter at a Roman fortress ...
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Archaeologists uncover hundreds of 3,000-year-old artefacts – including stones etched with world’s oldest writing system
ancient seals and cuneiform tablets, offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of one of the world’s earliest civilisations. Cuneiform is one of the oldest known forms of writing, and was used ...