Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Halafian pottery from an excavation at Arpachiyah, Iraq - Yosef Garfinkel Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

Mathematics was an important part of many ancient cultures, not just the Greek. These peoples were also at the forefront of notable discoveries, as recorded in The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, ...

(CNN) — Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of ...