Scientists are stunned after finding an advanced device used by the inhabitants of the ancient city of Babylon
Archaeologists have been astonished after finding an advanced tablet used by Babylonian surveyors in the ancient city of Babylon. A city where some of the most powerful empires in the ancient world ruled for a long time. As the capital of the Babylonian Empire was a global center for trade, arts and learning, it is estimated that it was the largest city in the world, and perhaps the first city with a population of more than 200,000 people. Now it is an archaeological excavation site in progress, with only several thousand residents and a few villages within its borders.
It is also famous for having one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world, the Tower of Babel, which was mentioned for the first time in the Book of Genesis in the Bible.
In 1894, the American archaeologist Edgar Banks discovered a stone tablet, which he sold to collector George Plimpton, to be transferred to Columbia University in the 1930s. Today, that tablet is known as Plimpton 322. At that time, researchers did not realize its importance until 1945 to discover that it contains the Pythagorean triple.
But then it was left in limbo and Dr. Daniel Mansfield of the University of New South Wales, Australia, was not given access until this year.
Speaking to the BBC, which is covering a documentary about the truth about the tablet's discovery, titled "With Evidence, the Ancient Babylonians Are More Advanced Than We Thought", Dr Mansfield said: "The Babylonian Tablet is the most interesting and complex 'mathematical document' in the world." ancient, "adding that ancient civilizations understood mathematics much better than we thought." He was amazed at the understanding of the Mesopotamians of the Pythagorean triple theorem with a level of development that could not be expected or predicted.
Historical documents show that the era of geometry began in Greece. Astronomers used this technique to understand the movement of celestial bodies in the night sky. From using this technique to look up at the night sky, they have applied it to the ground in everyday life. They did not have what we call today the "Pythagorean theorem".
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