12 African Inventions That Changed The World

1. Mathematics

The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African prehistory. The oldest known possible mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, which was discovered in the Lebombo Mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately *35,000 B.C. Many of the math concepts that are learned in school today were also developed in Africa. Over *35,000 years ago, Ancient Egyptians scripted textbooks about math that included division and multiplication of fractions and geometric formulas to calculate the area and volume of shapes.

*The age suggested here is speculative, not objective.

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