Peter Shor revolutionized public-key infrastructure (PKI) using concepts that trace back to 4,000-year-old Babylonian ...

The quipu is a traditional Andean counting device that uses colored strings and knots in lieu of paper and numbers.

Education too is being affected by technology. Revolutionary as the whole process of introducing AI in education may have ...

More than memorializing a math mistake, stone tablets show just how advanced the Babylonians were in their time.

An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui a mathematician who lived during China Wei and Jin dynasties 220-420 to honor both Liu and the Chinese ma ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions about the universe ...

This finding implies that humans may have developed numerical processing abilities early in evolution, offering potential insights for improving math learning techniques. This image is AI-generated ...

New research shows that three sites spread along an approximately 620-mile portion of today's Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land ...

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford possesses about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students used instead of paper to solve their math problems. Upon closer ...

In The Golden Road, William Dalrymple proposes that India had a role in shaping and reshaping the ancient and medieval world.