It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Explore the etymology of Greek numbers, their origins, meaning, and their influence on mathematics and ancient Greek culture.

For people living in the ancient city of Babylon, Marduk was their patron god, and thus it is not a surprise that Babylonian astronomers took an interest in tracking the comings and goings of the ...

Some researchers believe that mathematical patterns found in ancient structures may point to a lost civilization—one that ...

Two brothers, two offerings, one murder. Cain and Abel. If you want to better understand the world, forget the textbooks. Just read Genesis 4. Since then, every war, election, and social-media ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Using numbers scrawled by Bronze Age merchants on 4,000-year-old clay tablets, a historian and three economists have developed a novel way to pinpoint the locations of lost cities of the ancient world ...

Most of the science books written two thousand years ago in ancient Greece turned out to be spectacularly wrong. However, ancient discoveries in mathematics remain as true today as they were back then ...

Tourists look at a do-nothing and think, "Why not?" Then they buy it as a souvenir of wonderful Arkansas. But they should ask, "Why"? Because there's a reason why. "I was at a party with a history ...

Ganita Prakash has new updates, and it now combines modern concepts with India’s mathematical heritage. So, what are these ...