(photo credit: MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH/REUTERS) Thousands of Islamic tombs from the medieval era were found ... sensed that there is some spatial pattern between the tombs.

Medieval Islamic artisans seem to have developed a procedure for creating jigsawlike mosaics that ultimately led them to an exotic pattern that mathematicians would discover nearly half a ...

Costanzo et al. / PLOS One Archaeologists in eastern Sudan have discovered thousands of medieval Islamic tombs arranged in patterns resembling galaxies, with burials seemingly clustered around ...