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 ...

The way mathematics professor Bill Casselman explains it, there are things about the ancient Babylonian civilisation that are not too different from ours. Take spreadsheets. These days we run them on ...

Ancient Babylonian astronomers were way ahead of their time, using sophisticated geometric techniques that until now had been considered an achievement of medieval European scholars. That is the ...

Si.427 is a hand tablet from 1900-1600 BCE, created by an Babylonian surveyor. It’s made out of clay, and the surveyor wrote on it with a stylus. Despite what you may have thought in school, all those ...