On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

The NCERT Class 8 math textbook reintroduces the Pythagorean Theorem as the Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem, honoring ancient ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

India has a rich ancient history of great achievements in mathematics which has been disseminated in the world and has led ...

For over two thousand years, one line in an ancient math text was treated as an error. The greatest minds tried to remove it, ...

For people living in the ancient city of Babylon, Marduk was their patron god, and thus it is not a surprise that Babylonian astronomers took an interest in tracking the comings and goings of the ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Tourists look at a do-nothing and think, "Why not?" Then they buy it as a souvenir of wonderful Arkansas. But they should ask, "Why"? Because there's a reason why. "I was at a party with a history ...