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

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

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

BEIJING -- An asteroid has been named after Liu Hui, a mathematician who lived during China's Wei and Jin dynasties (220-420), to honor both Liu and the Chinese mathematics he represented. A ceremony ...

Barwik, Miroslaw 2018. Dipinti in the relieving chamber above the Bark Hall of the Hatshepsut Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, Vol. 27, Issue. 2, p. 33.

Any account of the classical sciences of India must begin with mathematics, for, as the ancient Sanskrit text Vedanga Jyotisa (ca. fourth century B.C.E.) says, Like the crest on the peacock’s head, ...

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

The project began when both students independently tackled a bonus question in their high school math contest that offered a ...

The perspective and expertise which Sattler brings to these issues will be of great interest and value to those working in ancient philosophy or in the history of science.” Stephen Makin, University ...