An error for the ages: 4,000-year-old clay tablet immortalizes Sumerian student's math mistake
Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...
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4,500-Year-Old Sumerian Palace Discovered in Iraq Desert
A Sumerian palace discovered in Iraq dates back 4,500 years and helps to understand one of the first civilizations in human ...
Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
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Iraqi student’s 4,000-year-old math mistake well preserved on a clay tablet
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
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The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet
Until just two years ago, it was prominently displayed in a museum near ... used in ancient Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. Scholars discovered it in 1853, when a 12-tablet version was found ...
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Early writing tablet
This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations ... The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the ...
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Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet
This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period ... Borough of Wembley and it formed the foundation of the Brent Museum.