Learn how ancient pottery covered in flowers may be humanity’s first attempts at mathematical thinking.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS at times may seem over-bold in attributing racial values to the terms of their cultural analyses, although the practice frequently has much to be said in its favour, when it is followed ...