One of the earliest writing systems in the world may have been influenced by symbols engraved on ancient "cylinder seals." These small stone cylinders helped people keep track of goods and ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in ...

But the extent of these changes varies with the nature and social distribution of the writing system; varies, that is, according to the system's intrinsic efficacy as a means of communication, and ...

The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost ... a non-alphabetic kind of writing that grew out of a simple system of pictographs into a flexible medium with which the Sumerian (unrelated to anything ...

and the findings of this study bridge this divide by illustrating how some late prehistoric images were incorporated into one of the earliest invented writing systems," Silvia Ferrara, the lead ...

In a region in Georgia, a mysterious Bashplemi tablet has surfaced with a brand-new writing system that was never seen before. And it may alter current beliefs about ancient writing systems ...