Slideshow from the New York Times website of 13 cuneiform clay tablets dating from 1900 to 1700 BC from an exhibition at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Many of these are exercises by students studying to be scribes who were learning mathematics based on the extinct Sumerian language
For more background on the exhibition and the tablets, go to artdaily.org and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World's own website
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