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“It is a complicated, and arguably gradual, phenomenon and it is difficult to set a zero point in time in which the invention took place.” In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers ...

"The invention of writing marks the transition ... Among the first cities to emerge in Mesopotamia, Uruk was an immensely important centre throughout the fourth millennium BCE, exerting influence ...

[Related: Ancient Mesopotamian texts show when and why humans first kissed.] “The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge ...

"The close relationship between ancient sealing and the invention of writing in southwest ... seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia. “Shared seal imagery” furthermore ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ...

"The invention of writing marks the transition ... Among the first cities to emerge in Mesopotamia, Uruk was an immensely important center throughout the fourth millennium BCE, exerting influence ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...