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 ...
A 3,700-YEAR-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world's oldest - and most accurate - trigonometric table. Mathematicians believe that the tablet, ...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—A 3,700-year-old cuneiform tablet housed at Columbia University is inscribed with the world’s oldest and most accurate working trigonometric table, according to a report in The ...