Hayim Lapin - Professor of History and Robert H. Smith Professor of Jewish Studies ... recommend Monika Amsler’s well written and carefully argued new monograph, The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique ...
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
The history of Egypt at this time is almost a blank and the doings of even major Babylonian kings like Nebuchadnezzar have had to be reconstructed from a few building inscriptions supplemented by ...
Ancient Babylonians 'were first to use geometry' Mesopotamia: The ancient place where history began From 2009: US criticised over Babylon damage He also found evidence of fuel leaks, and 12 ...
Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones.