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{{short description|Ancient Chinese diagram using the 3,4,5 right triangle to demonstrate the Pythagore ...|title=Was Pythagoras Chinese? An Examination of Right Triangle Theory in Ancient China |date=1977 |publisher=National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |lo ...

...the '''Kahun Mathematical Papyri''') is an [[ancient Egyptian mathematics|ancient Egyptian mathematical]] text. It forms part of the [[Kahun Papyri]], which ...agett, Marshall ''Ancient Egyptian Science, A Source Book''. Volume Three: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) Americ ...

...illustration of the Bride's Chair showing a chair upon which, according to ancient tradition, a bride might have been carried to the marriage ceremony can be ...ra II.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Victor Katz |title=The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: a sourcebook |date=2007 |publisher=Princeton Univ ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the [[Septuagint]] version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B ...y on Sargon II, King of Assyria: implications for Biblical studies |title= Mesopotamia and the Bible |volume= 341 | series= Journal for the Study of the Old Testa ...

The [[Babylonian mathematics|mathematics of ancient Mesopotamia]], [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics|Egypt]], and [[Greek mathematics|Greece]] had no expli The ancient Greeks had no general method for computing areas of shapes with curved boun ...

...5, 2015. Summary: The paean to King Josiah and exalted descriptions of the ancient Israelite empires beg the thought that he and his scribes lie behind the De Extant ancient manuscripts of a translation into [[Koine Greek]] known as the [[Septuagint ...

...nown as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BC; some extant ancient manuscripts of this version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; <math> \m [[File:TurinPapyrus1.jpg|right|thumb|200px|An ancient Egyptian mining map (left half) for Ramesses IV's quarrying expedition, 12t ...

Although an ancient origin for the puzzle has often been claimed, it has not been documented. I Similar problems of unequal division go back to ancient times, but without the twist of the loan and return of the extra camel. For ...

...5, 2015. Summary: The paean to King Josiah and exalted descriptions of the ancient Israelite empires beg the thought that he and his scribes lie behind the De Extant ancient manuscripts of a translation into [[Koine Greek]] known as the [[Septuagint ...

...k]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; ...]]s) were commonly gathered for food in the area where Ezekiel was exiled (Mesopotamia).{{sfn|Carley|1974|p=34}}<ref>Note on Ezekiel 4:9 in [[New English Translat ...

...geometry operations involving a diagram from which, it has been suggested, ancient Mesopotamians might, at an earlier time, have derived the Pythagorean theor ...tice of representing parameters and unknowns by letters were unheard of in ancient times. It is now widely accepted as a result of [[Jens Høyrup]]'s extensive ...

Extant ancient manuscripts of a translation into [[Koine Greek]] known as the [[Septuagint | label= Ancient [[Israel]] ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; ...her lands into Israel. The places listed in verses 24, 29–41 are partly in Mesopotamia and partly in Syria.{{sfn|Dietrich|2007|p=260}} This mixing of ethnicity wo ...

...wn as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE, which extant ancient manuscripts include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; <math> \mathfrak{G}</math *"[[Aram-Naharaim]]": that is "[[Mesopotamia]]" (KJV) is listed here instead of Aram Beth-rehob in 2 Samuel 10:6, perhap ...

...t chapter and verse numbering), made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the [[Septuagint]] version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B ...1999. p 151.</ref> [[Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet|A tablet]] was unearthed in the ancient city of [[Sippar]] in the 1870s and acquired by the [[British Museum]] in 1 ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; .../ancient-israel/how-ancient-taxes-were-collected-under-king-manasseh/ "How Ancient Taxes Were Collected Under King Manasseh."] Biblical Archaeology Society. J ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; ...suffered 'the brunt of most attacks on Jerusalem, for those arriving from Mesopotamia' (cf. {{bibleverse|Jeremiah|1:13-15|KJV}}).{{sfn|Smith-Christopher|2007|p=3 ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; ...y on Sargon II, King of Assyria: implications for Biblical studies |title= Mesopotamia and the Bible |volume= 341 | series= Journal for the Study of the Old Testa ...

...nium BC|3rd millennia BC]] among the ancient peoples of [[Mesopotamia]], [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] and the [[Indus Valley civilisation|Indus Valley]], and perha ...

...=March 15, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html|title=an old Mathematical Object|publisher=|accessdate= ...first [[Babylonian cuneiform numerals|numeral system]], and a system of [[Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement|weights and measures]]. ...