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Mesopotamia’s 6,000-year-old cylinders with antique symbols uncover birth of writing
now modern-day Iraq. So, the first question driving an intriguing, though controversial, new study was: “Did seal imagery contribute significantly to the invention of signs in the first writing ...
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The Oldest Cities In The World May Have Been In Ukraine, Not Mesopotamia, Groundbreaking Research Suggests
In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...