The Minoan Civilization of Crete, often hailed as Europe’s first literate society, left behind a strange writing system that continues to mystify modern scholars, remaining an unsolved enigma to ...

The writing system is thought to have originated from Mesopotamia, the region where the world’s earliest known civilization developed that’s now modern-day Iraq.

SAN DIEGO (CN) — The Rosetta Stone for deciphering and tracing the origins of one of humankind’s earliest writing systems might just be cylindrical seals used to imprint images onto a series of ...