It’s easy to adopt your culture’s assumptions about what a narrative is and not look beyond them. Western assumptions about what narratives are go way
The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon provided several interesting measurements of the human body. They’re precise and diverse and thus don’t seem to have been derived
Shigehisa Kuriyama, in The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine, wrote that ancient Greeks appreciated bodies that had a
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia intensely focused on maintaining the sanctity of the state’s territory and displaying it in spectacular temples and palaces. This focus on
Sumerians created a system of writing that was robust enough for literature more than 5,000 years ago. It was initially used to record inventories and
A lot of the people who take selfies by Pisa’s leaning tower miss the Campo Santo, but it’s one of the stateliest buildings I’ve ever
So it leans, big deal. They practically charge you a Lambo to go to the top, but I knew that there is much better stuff
People in the 13th century classified their world so that every being had its place in a universal system. Their world included some strange creatures.
Alfred North Whitehead wrote that the European philosophical tradition, which America has inherited, is mainly a series of footnotes to Plato. Other philosophers have given
After the first known Greek philosophers (in Meletus) speculated about the basis reality, Parmenides and Empedocles expanded mental horizons further beyond the visible world