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A photograph of the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations at Nippur in 1899 or 1900. Nippur was the principal center of scribal training in the Old Babylonian period. The tablets excavated there provided the basis for recent research on mathematical education and curriculum. Credit: John Henry Haynes, courtesy of the Penn Museum Archives

A photograph of the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavations at Nippur in 1899 or 1900. Nippur was the principal center of scribal training in the Old Babylonian period. The tablets excavated there provided the basis for recent research on mathematical education and curriculum.

Credit: John Henry Haynes, courtesy of the Penn Museum Archives

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