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Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 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

[–] [email protected] 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Humans have always been highly intelligent, they were just limited by the tools of their times. And yes much of their knowledge and innovation wasn't preserved to be built off of.

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