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

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

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