In his work The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Greeks borrowed much of their knowledge, including geometry, from Egypt. Ancient sources report that mathematician Pythagoras travelled widely to Egypt, Babylonia, and beyond, studying with Egyptian priests to learn geometry, astronomy, and religious rituals.
Most modern scholars agree that Egyptian mathematics influenced Greek thinkers like Thales and Pythagoras, because Egypt had developed sophisticated geometric methods for surveying land, constructing pyramids, a
