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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake
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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Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger'
Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers ...
An error for the ages: 4,000-year-old clay tablet immortalizes Sumerian student's math mistake
Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...
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The Last King of Babylon
Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...
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The World's Oldest Writing
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 ...
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Noah’s Ark Shown on Ancient Babylonian Map
Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as the Imago Mundi, the clay tablet has baffled archaeologists for over ...
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Beautiful Babylon: Jewel of the Ancient World
This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...
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The Babylonian Talmud and Late Antique Book Culture
Satlow, Michael L and Sperling, Michael 2024. Social network analysis of the Babylonian Talmud. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Vol. 39, Issue. 3, p. 968. In this book, Monika Amsler explores ...