What is the first table (columns,rows) that had been discovered?

From: Jorn Barger (jorn_at_enteract.com)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: 23 Jul 2004 14:32:04 -0700

A year ago February, hanan_cohen@fastmail.fm (Hanan Cohen)
wrote in msg news:<63c08e6a.0302191152.6ab93aaf@posting.google.com>
> I am looking for information on the first table (rows and columns)
> that had been discovered. Where had it been found, to when is it
> dated, what's written on it, who has written it?
> The question popped up in my mind when I read Jorn Bargers' Timeline
> of knowledge-representation.
> http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/timeline.html

The answer is in "The History of Mathematical Tables"-- 2600 BC, in
Mesopotamia. It was a table of areas for square fields.

Tables for accounting became common around 1800 BC.