Tucked away in a seemingly forgotten corner of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Daniel Mansfield found what may solve one of ancient math’s biggest questions. First exhumed in 1894 from what is now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from ...

It is no secret that mathematics follows certain laws of nature and that these patterns can be seen over and over again in our world, from the shape of leaves, flowers, and even snowflakes to the most ...

A scientist has revealed that an ancient clay tablet could be the oldest and most complete example of applied geometry. The surveyor's field plan from the Old Babylon period shows that ancient ...

A Classics student is trying to reconstruct the history of geometrical and mathematical diagrams by examining copies and translations of Elements, the ancient work of Greek mathematician Euclid.

Humans have been drawing lines and circles to grasp geometrical concepts and describe the laws of nature for about 5,000 years. But most scholars have approached the history of ancient mathematical ...

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from ...

Clay tablets dating back to between 350 and 50 B.C. have revealed that the Babylonians not only tracked the biggest planet in our solar system but also created the birth of calculus while they were ...

For nearly 100 years, the mysterious tablet has been referred to as Plimpton 322. It was first discovered in Iraq in the early 1900s by Edgar Banks, the American archaeologist on which the character ...

Thirty-eight hundred years ago, on the hot river plains of what is now southern Iraq, a Babylonian student did a bit of schoolwork that centuries later would change our understanding of ancient ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at least fifteen tightly documented geometric and astronomical puzzles embedded ...