Over the past century, archaeologists have uncovered more than 1,600 Proto-Elamite inscriptions, but only about 43 in Linear Elamite, scattered widely across Iran. Illustration by Meilan Solly ...

Economic tablet with numeric signs and Proto-Elamite script. | Marie-Lan Nguyen, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.5. This ancient writing system was used more than 5000 years ago in what is now Iran.

Dahl works on another script called "proto-Elamite," and disagreed with a statement the team made in the article that proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite have a close relationship.

The symbols you see up top are known as proto-Elamite script, a writing system that dates back five millennia to the Early Bronze age, in what is now southwestern Iran.

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite workers at an Egyptian turquoise mine in the Sinai region. The proto ...

TEHRAN, July 4 (MNA) -- The National Museum of Iran (NMI) and the Louvre plan to publish the texts of the Elamite inscriptions in both museums’ collections in a trilingual book. The decision was made ...

Majidzadeh tells archaeologists to use Proto-Iranian instead of Proto-Elamite TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) – The director of the archaeological team working at the Jiroft ancient site in the Halil-Rud River ...

“In the second half of the third millennium BC, Proto-Elamite script was replaced by the linear-Elamite script,” Majidzadeh said. The Inshushinak inscription was also written in linear-Elamite during ...