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intellectualmathematics.com
In ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, mathematics meant law and order. Specialised mathematical technocrats were deployed to settle conflicts regarding taxes, trade contracts, and inheritance. Mathematics enabled states to develop civil branches of government instead of relying on force and violence. Ma |
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zythophile.co.uk
It's a claim you will find repeated in dozens - possibly hundreds - of places: that the so-called "Hymn to Ninkasi", a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and around the ancient city of Nippur, which stood between |
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www.labrujulaverde.com
Archaeology often speaks to us through stones, bones, and ceramics. Rarely does it return the intimate voice of everyday acts, such as the stroke of writing. An exceptional discovery in the Roman city of Conimbriga, in central Portugal, has achieved precisely that: recovering not only a scribe's ins |
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talesoftimesforgotten.com
Nearly everyone loves music and the ancient Greeks loved music as much as anyone. Many of the poems that have survived to us from ancient Greece are actually song lyrics that were originally meant to be sung. Unfortunately, nearly all ancient Greek music has been irretrievably lost; no one alive will ever hear the original ... Continue reading "What Did Ancient Greek Music Sound Like?" |
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