Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

Scholars consider cuneiform the first writing system, and humans used its wedge-shaped characters to inscribe ancient languages such as Sumerian on clay tablets beginning around 3400 BC. The writing ...

Such cylinder seals were used for millennia throughout Mesopotamia, where they were rolled across clay tablets to print their ...

Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans ...

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Clay Holmes was one of the best closers in baseball to open the 2024 regular season, until he fell victim to a brutal skid. Between June 13 and Sept. 18, the New York Yankees reliever put up a 5. ...

The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East ... been called the Imago Mundi by scientists who say it shows ancient Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, surrounded by “Bitter River,” a ...

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A study published last year points to Mesopotamia around 4,500 years ago as one of the earliest known places where kissing was a “well-established practice”. Thousands of clay tablets ...