Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Halafian culture arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, displaying one of the earliest ...

For over two thousand years, one line in an ancient math text was treated as an error. The greatest minds tried to remove it, ...

Among the oldest known math texts is a single line that has quietly puzzled scholars for centuries. On its surface, it works ...

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

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 ...

To do the method, begin by writing the two numbers you want to multiply at the top of two columns. In the left column, you ...

This story is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more here. Some of the same items the Mayans would have used ...