The eschatological myths are very reminiscent of shamanic or oracular visions, both known to Greeks (see Dodds, 1957), and both commonly subjected to symbolic interpretation. Arg. 1.2. Plato acknowledged the importance of combining different expository styles suited to the different natures of person...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
The perfect right angles of the pyramid were likely achieved using either a set square, of which ancient specimens are preserved, or using a ‘Pythagorean’ triangle, which was known to the Egyptians before the Greeks. They also used specialized surveying tools called themerkhet(basically a plumb...