A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later BERLIN—For a text that may rewrite the history of mathematics, it looks ...

Newly translated ancient tablets show that ancient Babylonian astronomers used unexpectedly advanced geometry to understand the planets. The find, described on Thursday in the journal Science, reveals ...

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According to a newly translated cuneiform tablet, ancient Babylonian astronomers were the first to use surprisingly modern methods to track the path of Jupiter. The purpose of four ancient Babylonian ...