Tree-ring dating and radiocarbon research has established an absolute timeline for the archaeological, historical and environmental record in Mesopotamia from the early second millennium B.C.

Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.

What was school like? An ancient tablet with cuneiform script from Mesopotamia period dating 1,500-539 BC (Photo by Gary Todd licensed CC0.1 Universal Public Domain Dedication via Wikimedia) ...

“However, the stunningly advanced state of mathematics in this region has largely been known only to scholars. “By demonstrating the richness and sophistication of ancient Mesopotamian ...

(CNN) -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.