Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Consider a proportionate divine response to extraordinary cruelty: A gradual, ratcheting pressure on a tyrant who refused every opportunity to stop the suffering (Vaera) ...