A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic ...

Math, citizen science and the scientific method are all tools researchers use to investigate evidence of unidentified ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza may hold more than the secrets of its construction—it might encode deep mathematical constants.

Spiders, parchment, bone and complex math were among the methods ancient cultures used. What drives this need? Who are the soothsayers in our midst today?

Kheer is thousands of years old; you can even find it referenced in "The Legend of the Chessboard," an ancient Indian legend ...

No doubt, these tablets are an incredibly valuable source of history. But Sumerian tablets have become an increasingly hot commodity on the antiquities market as shown from the high bidding for this ...

The Department of Mathematics consists of the Mathematical Institute and the Freudenthal Institute. Mathematical research and academic education become one within the Mathematical Institute. The ...

For instance, 1728 is a key number in the sexagesimal system (base 60), which was central to ancient Babylonian and Sumerian mathematics, while 432 is often associated with cosmic cycles and harmonic ...