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An error for the ages: 4,000-year-old clay tablet immortalizes Sumerian student's math mistake
one of twenty examples of ancient Babylonian mathematics homework. The tablet was excavated in 1931 from Kish in present-day Iraq. The round clay tablet measures only 3.2 inches (8.2 centimeters ...
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Lost Civilization Unveiled: Middle Bronze Age Tablets Reveal Hidden Mesopotamian History
New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...
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Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia
New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient ... center referenced in Old Babylonian monuments like ...
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Babylonian mathematics was not based on counting with ten fingers ... world's oldest known writing system that can be deciphered. The earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets containing pictorial script ...