What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian mathematics ...

A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their 4,000-year-old geometry homework at a time when the world shifted from oral to written dissemination of knowledge. The ...

Polygons are multi-sided shapes with different properties. Shapes have symmetrical properties and some can tessellate. Loci and constructions - Edexcel Loci are a set of points with the same property.

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), ...

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. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...