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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maryam Zakir-Hussain

8,000-year-old pottery shards reveal ancient Mesopotamians understood maths before numbers invented

An 8,000-year-old pottery vessel has revealed that Mesopotamians were using mathematics years before numbers and writing were invented, according to a recent study.

Up until now, the first records of written numbers emerged in what is now Iraq around 3400BC by the Sumerians.

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