This week we look at ancient Egyptian mathematics, building techniques, tools, and culture Just because something is difficult doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Over the past centuries, archaeologists, ...

Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

The museum sits at the crossroads of ancient history and a modern tourism revival — linking directly to the Giza plateau via pedestrian paths and eco-friendly transport. Daily visitor numbers are ...

As Egypt prepares to inaugurate the world’s largest archaeological museum on 1 November, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has ...

Archaeologists and mathematicians alike have been puzzled for centuries by the use of spherical jugs in trade in the ancient world, and how merchants measured the volume of the commodities they held.

WHEN Prof. T. Eric Peet's handsome and in every respect admirable edition of the Rhind Papyrus appeared in 1923, anyone who read it must have felt that we had afr long last (nearly fifty years had ...

Mathematics in Mesopotamia : Where did mathematics begin? ; Political history in Mesopotamia ; The number symbols ; Arithmetic operations ; Babylonian algebra ; Babylonian geometry ; The uses of ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (made around 3,500 years ago) found in Thebes, Egypt In seven houses ...