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

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 ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

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

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 ...

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 ...