Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...