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

At six, standing on tiptoes behind a podium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Anirudh Rao explained how he planned to “control wind.” The idea, he tol ...

Scientists have found proof of mathematics being used by a society long before formal numbers were invented. The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia painted floral patterns on pottery that follow ...

A recent study reveals that decorative flower motifs on 8,000-year-old pottery from the Halafian culture demonstrate ...

Nandkumar M. Kamat The Star of Bethlehem remains a unique focal point in scientific inquiry, occupying a rare intersection of ...

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Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Each February, in observance of Black History Month in the United States, we revisit the stories of notable African ...