Learn why the achievements of Egypt, Babylon and Greece, though child’s play today, still stand as remarkable feats of ...

The oldest genomes ever recovered from modern humans have helped pin down when and how the momentous mingling of two hominins ...

"Ancient Chinese mathematics is a treasure trove ... a mathematician from the Western Zhou period. In it, Zhou Gong asks Shang Gao: "The sky cannot be climbed step by step, nor can the Earth ...

It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the ...

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago.

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

This finding implies that humans may have developed numerical processing abilities early in evolution, offering potential insights for improving math learning techniques. This image is AI-generated ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

However, many of his works have not been found. Rediscovering them would revolutionize our understanding of ancient Greek culture and potentially shake our knowledge of science and mathematics. 4. The ...

A few days back, I was at a convention of schoolteachers of mathematics. One of the keynote addresses was delivered by a college professor on Vedic Mathematics ...

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford possesses about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students used instead of paper to solve their math problems. Upon closer ...