It's long been accepted that the ancient Greeks were responsible for developing the mathematical concept of trigonometry, but a new discovery indicates they weren't the first to figure it out after ...

About 3 700 years ago a Babylonian mathematician wrote a trigonometry table on a clay tablet that scientists say is more accurate than anything we have today. The table predates Pythagoras’s theorem ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The ancient Babylonians – who lived from about 4,000BCE in what is now Iraq – had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

A present day photo of the ruins of Babylon in Iraq. Suppose that a ramp leading to the top of a ziggurat wall is 56 cubits long, and the vertical height of the ziggurat is 45 cubits. What is the ...

Around 3,700 years ago, someone in Babylon wrote a table of numbers on a clay tablet. Since the 1930s, when the tablet entered Columbia University’s collection, researchers have puzzled over the ...

The true significance of a 3,700-year-old clay tablet discovered by the real life Indiana Jones has only now been revealed THIS 3,700-year-old clay tablet was likely used by ancient Babylonians to ...

The purpose of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet has finally been revealed. As it turns out, it was an ancient trigonometric table that the Babylonians used, beating the Greeks by more than a ...