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06/05/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

The medicinal history of mustard

These days, mustard is viewed as the perfect partner to ketchup. But way back when, this pungent plant was valued for more than just its culinary applications. Ancient peoples regarded mustard as a highly important botanical medicine. Mustard in ancient Greece According to the American Botanical Council, some of the earliest recorded uses of mustard […]

08/28/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Ancient Babylonian clay tablet discovered to be a trigonometry reference sheet for building temples and canals

The 70-year old mystery behind an ancient clay tablet may have finally been solved. Two mathematicians from the University of New South Wales, Australia claim that the tablet known as Plimpton 322 contains the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table. Its purpose, they surmise, was as an aid in the construction of temples, palaces, […]

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