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This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

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Before inventing the wheel, humans dragged heavy loads on an X-shaped structure of wooden poles called a travois.Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in New Mexico may have uncovered ...

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to its development of complex urban centers. This region fostered early farming, ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Iraq’s Zagros Mountains. Credit: ninara / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental building at the ancient site of Kani Shaie in Iraq, offering new insight into how ...

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The Sumerian civilization (known also as Sumer) was one of the earliest civilizations in the world. This ancient civilization emerged in the region of southern Mesopotamia (modern day southern Iraq), ...

Creating a great empire in ancient times was no simple task, and it usually involved a lot of warfare. Ancient Mesopotamia, called by many the cradle of civilization, was also the cradle of organized ...