THE cylinder seal is the typical product of the civilization of those countries and periods where cuneiform writing was employed, as is the scarab in Egypt or the coin on Roman sites. Invented at ...

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.

Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

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.

A new study's findings open new perspectives on understanding the birth of writing. The post Origins of writing traced to 6,000-year-old cylinder seal designs appeared first on Talker.

Protecting hydraulic and pneumatic cylinder rods with protective boots, as opposed to simply replacing them, is an effective ...