In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into stone cylinders told stories of trade, ownership, and governance.

Seal-cutters engraved designs on the cylinders ... department of classical philology and Italian studies at the University of Bologna. The symbols showed images of fringed textiles and vessels ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna systematically compared cylinder seal motifs with proto-cuneiform signs, revealing that engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

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