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

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

Researchers analyzing ancient pottery from Northern Mesopotamia have identified what may be the world's earliest botanical ...

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

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 ...

The following is adapted from the introduction to “The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight,” published by W. W. Norton & Co. It is in stores today! The world’s oldest collection of math ...