A new study revives the old argument that ancient seals came before cuneiform, humanity's earliest known example of writing.

Recent research has led to new conclusions about the origin of writing with important new understanding on human cognitive ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's ...

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC.

The wedge-shaped writing on the tablets, known as cuneiform, demonstrated that these ancient stargazers used geometric calculations to predict the motion of Jupiter. Scholars had assumed it wasn ...

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 ...