Have you ever asked yourself, "How often should I seal my survival food with wax?" This ancient technique of preserving food has been used for centuries, originating from times when refrigeration wasn ...

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the ...

Italian researchers suggest that symbols from the oldest writing system in the world may have come directly from cylinder seal motifs.

Ancient cave paintings show that humans have been harvesting ... Using an uncapping fork or heated knife, beekeepers ...

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 ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] Specifically, the seal refers to the original seal, while sealing clay refers to the clay used to cover the sealed property, just like stamped wax on an envelope ...

Research suggests ancient Mesopotamian trade symbols found on cylinder seals contributed to the development of proto-cuneiform writing.

Studies of seals and sealing practices have traditionally investigated aspects of social, political, economic, and ideological systems in ancient societies throughout the Old World. Previously, ...

As the solvents in floor wax evaporate, the wax hardens into a protective seal that confers a host of benefits: That said, wax offers only limited resistance to deeper dents or gouges, and does ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

Administrative innovations in South-west Asia during the fourth millennium BC, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform ...