Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Researchers at Israel's Hebrew University have identified the world's earliest systematic botanical art, dating back more than 8,000 years, that demonstrates sophisticated mathematical reasoning.

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

(CNN) -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.

The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. The Babylonian-era tablet lists Pythagorean triples. (CN) — A 3,700-year-old clay tablet contains a curious list of Pythagorean ...

Mathematics was an important part of many ancient cultures, not just the Greek. These peoples were also at the forefront of notable discoveries, as recorded in The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, ...

The exhibition of 13 ancient Babylonian tablets, titled ‘Before Pythagoras” The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics’, opened at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...