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A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will screen “The Nebra Sky Disc” on Thursday, December 5, at 11:30 AM.
New evidence of the world's oldest alphabet, carved onto finger-length clay cylinders, outdates other scripts by 500 years.
The writing above the map tells of the creation of the Earth ... It is only seen on one other cuneiform tablet, which describes an ark built by the ancient Babylonian version of Noah. The Ark ...
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What and how one learned depended on one's place in society. In ancient times, much like today, education was highly valued. Subjects could range from reading and writing to philosophy and ethics.
THE present volume is the first of two which Mr. Thompson intends to devote to a study of the evil spirits and devils of Babylonia, and it will, we believe, be welcomed by readers of many classes.
Trevor Van Damme receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving ...
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