Four small, clay tablets, unearthed in 2004, are finally gaining attention as possibly the first evidence of an alphabet, but ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia ... argument," he said. University of Pennsylvania archaeologist ...

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

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq ... A joint team of archaeologists from Durham University and the University of Al-Qadisiyah stumbled across ...

The earliest known writing system, called cuneiform, was invented around 3100 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia ... an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, proposed the idea some 30 years ...

Collon, Dominique, (eds.) and George, Andrew, (eds.) (2005). London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

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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 ...