Many historians argue that the Ishango bone is the oldest known mathematical object.
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A Short History of the Origin of Mathematics
Although the majority of people today would date the origins of mathematics back to the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks, there is evidence to suggest that counting originated in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1960 geologists from Belgium discovered the Ishango bone near the Semliki river, which is on the border between modern-day