Here are ten famous and influential books that have left an indelible mark on history:\n\n1. **The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2100 BCE)**: This ancient Mesopotamian poem is one of the earliest known pieces of literature, exploring themes of friendship, loss, and the human condition.\n\n2...
380 years later the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, created another defining feature of human civilization: the first unified code of law. Engraved on a seven foot tall basalt stone the 282 laws establish terms of judgment for business transactions, proper wages, and relationships, including divor...
we know the South American traditions on the ayahuasca, we now know the Egyptian and Mesopotamian use of acacia and DMT, what are your thoughts on potentially these kinds of traditions maybe originating or somehow beginning from indigenous Australian origins?
Yet it was the invention of irrigation, at first sight so harmful to its practitioners that actually produced a sufficient surplus to feed the priests, scholars, artists and so on whose activities are collectively thought of as "civilization". C. In the past 10,000 years, the world’s ...