The Birmingham Ishango Science Club started in January 1999 with funding from Birmingham LEA which has been ongoing. Since its inception the Club has supported 400 pupils, age range 8-16 from primary ...

The Ishango bone is an ancient artifact found in 1960 off the shores of Lake Edward, near the modern border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The artifact, made from a baboon fibula, has ...

When did human ancestors first learn to count? Well now that is a tricky question to answer. Rudimentary counting likely began with our fingers and may have advanced to dividing out pebbles into ...

Archaeologists have dug up many ancient, notched bones all around the world, but the Ishango bone is different. On it, there are markings that suggest its owners were making the first attempts at ...

The Avery Research Center stands tall in a dignified brick building that housed a secondary school for black men and women for almost a century on Bull Street. In modern times, the structure has been ...

“I have composed the piece entitled ‘Ishango bone’ for the violin, alto violin, and cello and it will be performed by foreign musicians,” he told Mehr News Agency. The Ishango bone, which dates back ...

Ishango, a social enterprise creating highly skilled jobs in Africa and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Africa’s first and largest network of centres for innovative ...