It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Explore the etymology of Greek numbers, their origins, meaning, and their influence on mathematics and ancient Greek culture.

Some researchers believe that mathematical patterns found in ancient structures may point to a lost civilization—one that ...

Most of the science books written two thousand years ago in ancient Greece turned out to be spectacularly wrong. However, ancient discoveries in mathematics remain as true today as they were back then ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Using numbers scrawled by Bronze Age merchants on 4,000-year-old clay tablets, a historian and three economists have developed a novel way to pinpoint the locations of lost cities of the ancient world ...

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 University Grants Commission’s draft mathematics curriculum, 2025, unveiled in August, has sparked a debate around its skewed emphasis on ancient knowledge systems over core subjects. Designed for ...

Tourists look at a do-nothing and think, "Why not?" Then they buy it as a souvenir of wonderful Arkansas. But they should ask, "Why"? Because there's a reason why. "I was at a party with a history ...