Mathematicians Crack Mystery of Babylonian Clay Tablet ‘Plimpton 322’0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- August 31, 2017
Plimpton 322, the most famous of Old Babylonian tablets (1900-1600 BC), is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars to calculate how to construct stepped pyramids, palaces and temples, according to a duo of researchers from the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia.
