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Discovered 3,700-Year-Old Clay Tablet Shows Babylonians Used Geometry Long Before Pythagoras

AncientPages.com | August 4, 2021

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have once again found proof our ancestors were more sophisticated than previously thought. There is much to learn from cuneiform tablets, or

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Mysterious Clay Tablet Reveals Babylonians Used Trigonometry 1,000 Years Before Pythagoras

AncientPages.com | August 24, 2017

AncientPages.com - Plimpton 322 is a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablets that has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years. The small tablet was discovered in the early 1900s in

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