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Study: Cylinder Seals and Sealing Practices Stimulated Invention of Writing in Ancient South-West Asia


Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script.

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