This cuneiform tablet may re-write the history of math and astronomy. Trustees of the British Museum/Mathieu Ossendrijver As one of the brightest objects in the night sky, the planet Jupiter has been ...

A clay tablet with cuneiform characters may contain a mathematical technique that was believed to be invented 1,400 years later BERLIN—For a text that may rewrite the history of mathematics, it looks ...

Newly translated ancient tablets show that ancient Babylonian astronomers used unexpectedly advanced geometry to understand the planets. The find, described on Thursday in the journal Science, reveals ...

Even when a culture leaves behind extensive written records, it can be hard to understand their knowledge of technology and the natural world. Written records are often partial, and writers may have ...