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The lost city of Imet rises from the Nile Delta, with 2,500-year-old mud houses that stood like skyscrapers in ancient Egypt.

The beginning of the Classical style in Greek sculpture is the beginning of naturalism in art, an important turning point in ...

In the early stages of the quantitative revolution, bridge players and gamblers helped bring rigor and innovation to markets.

It is one of the greatest enigmas of the Old Kingdom. Following the stunning engineering and organizational feat of the Great Pyramid of Giza, something unexpected happened. Instead of continuing and ...

For centuries, mathematicians have categorized infinities into a kind of ladder. The infinite set of natural numbers (1, 2, 3 ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

The Mashable shopping team has spent day and night during the Black Friday season hunting deals, so it's a miracle that any ...

But primes are often considered the building blocks of mathematics, and math itself is the scaffolding that supports ...

Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could be remnants of a ...

Every month, the salary comes in, and every month, it disappears just as quickly. Rent, groceries, transport, school fees, the list never ends. For many Egyptians, financial stability feels harder to ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — ...