5,500-Year-Old Seals Offer New Clues About the Birth of Writing
For 100 , learner have puzzled over the origins of the earth ’s first composition system . Now , a study by Italian researchers reveal that some of these earliest proto - cuneiform signs may have evolve directly from motifs on prehistorical cylinder seals . The enquiry , write inAntiquity , identified individual symbols carve into ancient Mesopotamian seals — used for pass over goods and conduct craft — that seem to have immediately transformed into proto - cuneiform sign , a script that emerged in Mesopotamia over five thousand years ago ....