THOUSANDS Of These Have Been Found Around The Ancient World

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Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and proved who they were in the days before paper. It’s a fascinating relic of a time long past and proof that the same issues of authentication that blockchain was developed to solve have been a part of humanity from day one.

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LINKS LINKS LINKS
https://www.govinfo.gov/about/authentication
https://hbr.org/2022/05/what-is-web3
https://link.springer.com/chap....ter/10.1007/978-1-59
https://www.archaeology.org/is....sues/422-2105/featur
https://www.thehistorypress.co.....uk/articles/a-brief
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Cylinder_seal#/media
https://www.spurlock.illinois.....edu/collections/nota
https://www.metmuseum.org/blog....s/metkids/2018/cylin
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/....collection/search/32
https://www.journals.uchicago.....edu/doi/abs/10.1086/
https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/dok....u.php?id=use_of_seal
https://www.nature.com/articles/143999a0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_hieroglyphs
https://mashable.com/article/t....iffany-nfts-cryptopu
https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=51456&from=
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/leaving-impression-revealing-intricate-story-sumerian-cylinder-seals-021262https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec_hieroglyphs
https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=51456&from=

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Federal Authenticity
3:20 - Ancient Identification
4:40 - Advantages of Cylinder Seals
7:31 - Seals as Status Symbols
9:20 - Eventual Decline
11:25 - Sponsor - Brilliant