Highlights from the Exhibition

Photograph of the obverse side of tablet B 06063

University of Pennsylvania Museum B6063

This multiplication table was written by a student named Gan-Gal as a demonstration of his skill as a scribe. Click here to learn more.

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Photograph of the obverse side of tablet YBC 7289

Yale Babylonian Collection YBC 7289

This famous tablet is a graphic witness that Babylonian scribes knew Pythagoras' Theorem and could calculate accurate square roots. Click here to learn more.

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Photograph of the obverse side of tablet Plimpton 322

Columbia University Plimpton 322

Plimpton 322 reveals that the Babylonians had a method of finding sets of three whole numbers such that the square of one of them is the sum of the squares of the other two, a classic problem in Number Theory. Click here to learn more.

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