The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found ... script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought ...

Cosar, to use mathematical models to analyze data from the tablets to reconstruct this vibrant trading system. Such is the fine-grained nature of these documents that the team has been able to use ...

The researchers see evidence of far-flung trade networks for merchandise and ideas: Copper from Oman has been found in Mesopotamia and perhaps in the Indus region; Omani pots have been found in ...

A recent study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled a significant link between ancient trade ... in Mesopotamia and is thought to be the precursor to the world's first writing system ...

For centuries, scholars have puzzled over the origins of the world’s first writing system ... into ancient Mesopotamian seals—used for tracking goods and conducting trade—that seem to ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of raw materials trade between Bronze Age Iran and Mesopotamia. Tübingen researchers and Iranian archaeologists have discovered evidence of raw materials trade ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban ... and its related organization of trade and market exchange, especially ...