When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Ishango bone, from Africa's Congo region, has dozens of parallel notches cut into its surface ...

When did human ancestors first learn to count? Well now that is a tricky question to answer. Rudimentary counting likely began with our fingers and may have advanced to dividing out pebbles into ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured counting, even though no written numerals existed at the time. The claim is bold: ...

Archaeologists have dug up many ancient, notched bones all around the world, but the Ishango bone is different. On it, there are markings that suggest its owners were making the first attempts at ...

The Avery Research Center stands tall in a dignified brick building that housed a secondary school for black men and women for almost a century on Bull Street. In modern times, the structure has been ...

From the moment we learnt to count as a species we’ve never stopped – and the world we live in just keeps getting bigger and bigger. The observable universe. Our passion for numbers satisfies a deep ...

“I have composed the piece entitled ‘Ishango bone’ for the violin, alto violin, and cello and it will be performed by foreign musicians,” he told Mehr News Agency. The Ishango bone, which dates back ...