A 3700-year-old broken mathematical clay tablet has proved that Babylonians trumped the Greeks in developing trigonometry by 1000 years. The usage of clay tablet which was found in southern Iraq in ...

Thankfully, very few of us have to bother with trigonometry on a daily basis, but regardless of how much you may have dreaded studying it (or any math, for that matter) in school, it’s still ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --The ancient Babylonians - who lived from about 4,000 BCE in what is now Iraq - had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate than ...

It's long been accepted that the ancient Greeks were responsible for developing the mathematical concept of trigonometry, but a new discovery indicates they weren't the first to figure it out after ...