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Clay Tablet Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Had a Rough Understanding of Anatomy, ‘They Felt Anger in Their Feet and Love in the Knees’
Clay Tablet Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Had a Rough Understanding of Anatomy, ‘They Felt Anger in Their Feet and Love in the Knees’ Researchers claim that ancient humans possibly described ...
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Ancient Texts Reveal How Mesopotamians Felt Emotions—From Happiness in the Liver to Anger in the Feet
A team of researchers has compared how ancient Mesopotamians felt their emotions in the body by studying Akkadian texts from the first millennium B.C.E. and compared the results to present-day ...
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If the moon is in Earth's shadow, how can we still see it?
When the moon turned red thousands of year ago, the ancient Mayans and Mesopotamians feared that something monstrous and evil was eating the moon. They would shout at the night sky to try and fend ...
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Ancient genetics—Was Gilgamesh a mosaic?
Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in everyday art, their understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in chimerism and mosaicism ...