2000 BC BABYLONIAN NUMERALS COUNTING ON POSITION

Around 2,000 BC the Sumerians and their successors in Mesopotamia developed positional enumeration, a base-60 system in which a digit's value depends on its position, comparable in principle to the later Brahmi and Hindu-Arabic decimal systems.

The card

• Date — 2,000 BC
• Where — Mesopotamia (Iraq); this card illustrates a numeral system rather than a single artifact. 33.0000, 44.4000 — approximate
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

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