8,000-year-old pottery shards reveal ancient Mesopotamians understood maths before numbers invented - Decoration of pottery and seals in Halafian culture reflects high level of mathematical awareness, ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian pottery shows that people understood symmetry and division 4,000 years before the Sumerians invented numbers
Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in 8, ...
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From the fall of Ur to the rise of Assyria, how Mesopotamia’s first great collapse forged a new empire
After the Elamites shattered Ur, Mesopotamia splintered into rival kingdoms, ambitious warlords, and fragile survivor states fighting over the ruins of Sumer. This chapter follows Shamshi-Adad’s ...
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