Sarah Knapton is the Science Editor of The Telegraph and has covered all areas of science since 2013. She has previously been named Science Journalist of The Year, was Highly Commended at the Society ...

Thankfully, very few of us have to bother with trigonometry on a daily basis, but regardless of how much you may have dreaded studying it (or any math, for that matter) in school, it’s still ...

THIS 3,700-year-old clay tablet was likely used by ancient Babylonians to calculate how to build palaces, temples and canals. Mathematicians now believe the artefact, known as Plimpton 322, proves ...

A 3700-year-old broken mathematical clay tablet has proved that Babylonians trumped the Greeks in developing trigonometry by 1000 years. The usage of clay tablet which was found in southern Iraq in ...

The purpose of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet has finally been revealed. As it turns out, it was an ancient trigonometric table that the Babylonians used, beating the Greeks by more than a ...

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing a level of mathematical sophistication that pre-dates the ancient Greeks by a ...

Some researchers have been saying the Babylonians not only invented trigonometry but had mastered it. Now, Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old ...