A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian ...
The origins of ancient art can be traced back to our earliest ... The ziggurats of Sumer, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, and the ...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be added to the United Nations ...
Some of the most important pieces of art came from the Near East ... they’re still exactly the same as what our predecessors value. King Hammurabi of Babylon came into power in 1792 B.C. after having ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Name: Babylonian geometry homework What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an ...
In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ancient clay tablets revealed that Babylonian astronomers were more sophisticated than ...
The artefact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text - a system of writing on clay in an ancient Babylonian alphabet ... library of books on science, art, maths, medicine and philosophy.