Tag: miscellaneous
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Civilizations that counted up to a million
A month ago or so, I read a post asking an interesting question: when has been the first time a civilization managed to count up to a million? Even though the answer was already typed, it got me wondering… how many cultures and peoples reached such a high number in their numerical script, apart of…
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The wounded lioness
Something we take for granted (a lot) is that most anatomical and medical knowledge has been known for relatively little time, but here and there we get small clues proving that wasn’t exactly what happened. Yes, there was rampant misinformation and poor understanding of the human body processes. Stuff like the four humors, for example,…
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Testing, testing…
Here we are, on WordPress! Hello everyone, and welcome to my site! I’m Crodur, a 26 year old lurker that loves writting about what I find out on diferent human groups and experiences of the world. Mainly ancient and/or distant cultures, their similarities, diferences, symbols, themes, mythologies. linguistics… I started on tumblr, but I felt…
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