3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Stone Tablet Is Translated

3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Stone Tablet Is Translated

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet was translated last August and might rewrite the history of math, suggesting that trigonometry may have been developed before the ancient Greeks. The researchers said the tablet proves that the Babylonians developed trigonometry some 1,500 years prior to the Greeks…