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Here's where ancient accounting technology gets truly sophisticated. Cylinder seals, dating back to 4,400 BC, functioned as ...

Cylinder seals are believed to be the second most frequently excavated objects in the Near East and Levant after cuneiform tablets, due in part to their ubiquity in ancient society and their relative ...

Here’s how it works. An example of a cylinder seal (left) next to its design on a clay tablet (right). A new study suggests that symbols on these seals were the precursor to proto-cuneiform.

The cylinders were then rolled onto clay tablets, an impression of the design stamped onto the clay like a cookie press. Beginning around the mid-fourth millennium BCE, cylinder seals like these ...

Cylinder seals were also invented in Mesopotamia, and administrators used them to track mostly agricultural and textile trade starting in the mid-fourth millennium BCE.

No cylinder seals perfectly, especially if the engine is nitroused, supercharged, or turbocharged where the top and second rings are set with wide ring endgaps.

A 4,400-year-old cylinder seal dating back to the Early Bronze Age II period has been unearthed in ongoing excavations at Seyitömer Höyük in Kütahya, Turkey. The dating marks it as the oldest ...

Cylinder seal/Sello with animal design Media/Materials Pottery Techniques Modeled, incised Place Las Mercedes, Río Dos Novillos, Linea Vieja area; Pocora; Guácimo Cantón; Limón Province; Costa Rica ...

No cylinder seals perfectly, especially if the engine is nitroused, supercharged, or turbocharged where the top and second rings are set with wide ring endgaps.