The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the way ancient Babylonians viewed their world.

Researchers have deciphered ancient Babylonian tablets that predict future disasters. The 4,000-year-old artifacts were found more than 100 years ago in modern day Iraq but have only now been ...

argues that these are evidence that the Babylonians were solving real-world problems, such as surveying, using the basics of Pythagoras' theorem 1,000 years before the ancient Greeks.

Those learning and using mathematics have long consulted tables of numbers. The ancient Babylonians used clay tablets for this purpose. Papyrus, parchment, and paper all proved suitable for recording ...