The Great Pyramid of Giza is often treated as a monument of stone, but it also functions as a monument of numbers. I see at ...

Archaeologists and mathematicians alike have been puzzled for centuries by the use of spherical jugs in trade in the ancient world, and how merchants measured the volume of the commodities they held.

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

This story is part of WTOP’s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community, reported by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more here. Some of the same items the Mayans would have used ...

The NCERT Class 8 math textbook reintroduces the Pythagorean Theorem as the Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem, honoring ancient ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (made around 3,500 years ago) found in Thebes, Egypt In seven houses ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...