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Iraqi student’s 4,000-year-old math mistake well preserved on a clay tablet
A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their ... about two dozen cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon that students used instead of paper to solve their math ...
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Ancient world revealed: Babylonian map’s secrets uncovered
along with other artifacts in Sippar in present-day Iraq, about 25 miles southwest of modern-day Baghdad. The map is a 5 by 3-inch tablet that depicts the land of Mesopotamia, considered the ...