6,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Artifacts Unlock the Secrets of Writing’s Origins
Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...
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Spain’s Oldest Protestant Publishing House Began Underground 100 Years Ago
Clie published a Spanish translation of American historian Beth Allison Barr’s The Making of Biblical Womanhood, which ...
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Origins of writing traced to 6,000-year-old cylinder seal designs
A new study's findings open new perspectives on understanding the birth of writing. The post Origins of writing traced to ...
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The origin of writing in Mesopotamia is tied to designs engraved on ancient cylinder seals
Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE. This ...
Designs on ancient stone cylinders correspond to origin of writing in Mesopotamia, researchers discover
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 series ...
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Hidden 4,000-year-old fortified town discovered in the Khaybar Oasis of Saudi Arabia
A new archaeological study has revealed that ... "While urbanization began in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the 4th millennium B.C., our study tends to show that social complexity increased late ...
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Tech stock sell-off wipes out Wall Street’s October gains
Simply sign up to the US equities myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. US stocks gave up all of their gains for October as a sell-off in tech heavyweights on Thursday produced Wall ...
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André 3000 talks ‘New Blue Sun,’ rap future ahead of Boston show
Each concert is unique because André 3000 and his backing band fully improvise each “New Blue Sun” track, so no two shows are the same. The approach is heavily influenced by André 3000′s ...
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Giancarlo Stanton’s latest big October moment comes in brutal loss
LOS ANGELES — If the season were the summer of Aaron Judge, maybe this is the autumn of Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees’ best hitter, by a wide margin, in October has been the powerful ...
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Martha’s Table is giving away 3,000 winter coats in Southeast DC
On Saturday, Martha’s Table is giving away 3,000 winter coats to families in ... On site, there will be new and gently-used coats for men, women and children, along with winter accessories ...
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Have we reached restomod perfection in the Eccentrica Diablo and Nardone 928?
We’ve ended up creating 3,000 new parts, 300 in the engine, 198 in the gearbox alone. I compare it to sampling in hip hop, taking some elements and adding new ones so that it makes sense to the ...