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The ancient Babylonian tablet, known as Plimpton 322 was discovered by Edgar K. Banks, who later became the inspiration for the Indiana Jones movie series. The tablet discovered in Iraq almost 100 years ago, is made of clay and thought to be 3,700-year-old. Banks sold it to George Plimpton for $10 but now the significance of the tablet and its importance to mathematics is started to become more clear.
Two professors from the University of New South Wales, have worked on cracking the code and learned that trigonometry was discovered not by Greeks, but by ancient Babylonians and the numbers of the Plimpton 322 are part of a trigonometric table. It is believed to be the foundation of trigonometry that uses ratios and not angles or circles. It is the work of pure genius and sheds a light on other ancient Babylonian tablets discovered by archaeologists.