With this, you have successfully completed one of mathematics' oldest problems dating back to ancient Egypt – and when you successfully solve the Civ 7 Papyrus Problem, you'll be rewarded with a ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

StepPyramid #PyramidOfDjoser #OldestPyramid The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara is the oldest large-scale monumental ...

NEWS AND VIEWS 10 June 2025 Mathematics in ancient Egypt Calculation principles found in a papyrus scroll, and an author shares his love of lichens in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.

Around the same time, the ancient Egyptians developed new ideas about geometry, — the math of shapes — and figured out how to measure the surface area and volume of those shapes.

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher ...

Solving the equation can be slightly tricky, as it is based on a real-life problem called the Seven Hours Riddle, and its origin goes back to ancient Egyptian math. This article will cover ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published 10 trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, a feat thought impossible for 2,000 years.