The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. The Babylonian-era tablet lists Pythagorean triples. (CN) — A 3,700-year-old clay tablet contains a curious list of Pythagorean ...

UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during excavations at a site in Turkey that could shed light on what life was like during the Late ...

A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at ...