Seals were most often made of stone but also sometimes of bone, ivory, faience, glass, metal, wood, or even sun-dried or baked clay. A recessed inscription was carved onto the cylinder, which produced ...

The origin of writing is linked to designs engraved on cylinder seals 6,000 years ago, according to new research. A series of correlations between engraving on ancient Mesopotamian artifacts and ...

Representations of people weaving on a cylinder seal from the Mesopotamian city of Susa bear a similar form, as do artifacts from the city of Uruk. Similar resemblances can be seen between what ...