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# Ancient pottery from Mesopotamia may hold earliest clues to mathematics
- URL: https://www.assyriapost.com/ancient-pottery-from-mesopotamia-may-hold-earliest-clues-to-mathematics/
- Published: 2026-01-19T23:07:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-19T23:07:17.000Z
- Description: Flower designs on 8,000-year-old pots show “mathematical knowledge,” archaeologists say
- Author: The Assyria Post
- Tags: Curated stories

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"Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking.

Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern Mesopotamia exhibit regular numbers of petals determined by a mathematical progression, a pair of archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem report in a recent study. This finding, the scientists say, suggests that these people used a similar understanding for the division of land and agricultural produce."

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[This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing mathFlower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/f5/5df5a6c1-1f57-4975-951e-ddd33d31dec7/content/images/icon/cropped-favicon.jpg)Science Newsccrockett![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/5d/f5/5df5a6c1-1f57-4975-951e-ddd33d31dec7/content/images/thumbnail/010725_TM_pottery_feat.jpg)](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-pottery-math-earliest-evidence?ref=assyriapost.com)