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Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm always amazed by stuff like this that ancient peoples were able to work out on their own. Like how would they even figure any of this stuff out on their own? Obviously it had to be Aliens. /s

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Herodotus made an estimate of the rate of growth of the Nile delta, and used those estimates to challenge some conventional thinking about history and to make some predictions about the future. The ancients had a wealth of knowledge and competency. Probably much of it is lost.

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