Jun 22, 2024
From the blog of Bethsheba Ashe at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Bethsheba Ashe at The Times of Israel
Old Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before Pythagoras
I am functionally anumeric, but even I know this is amazing. Those Mesopotamians...
HTML version of For the Love of Geometry
It’s formatted and up, finally: For the Love of Geometry in HTML, if you prefer reading HTML on phone/other (or the PDF isn’t opening for you).
(I posted earlier that the third and last “between” story was up, for Dancing with the Lion, but only the PDF version. Now the HTML version joins it. This is the long one.)
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Göbekli Tepe is even more complex than we knew? Colour me surprised (heavy sarcasm). I have all the questions about this site - so tantalising.
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Top Ten Examples of Gematria
We thought it would be cool to show people a 'top ten' list of amazing gematria calculations that we've found over the past decade. Which ones are your favorites? Working backwards from 10th to first place...
Exploring the arrangement of Genesis 1-2 with the Biblical Gematria Cipher
Are Genesis 1-2 really two distinct stories from two different sources? Or might they be one unified text that is more like an ancient puzzle than a traditional linear story?