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December 20, 2010: Babylonia Math Skills Shown on Ancient Tablets

"The exhibition-Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics-opened at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, reports Artdaily.org."

"The tablets in the exhibition, at once beautiful and enlightening, date from the Old Babylonian Period (ca 1900-1700 BCE)."

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