This is on my "worst music videos" list.
Dec 20– From An Account of Egypt by Herodotus translated by G.C. Macauley
Summary: Herodotus figures out how big Egypt is, and Psammetichos conducts questionable experiments on children.
Commentary: I don't know about Psammetichos' whole experiment here. He makes kids be isolated and not talk so that he can see which language they naturally wind up speaking, which will tell him where people originated? What if the first people aren't the ones that invented language? Besides that, lots of old timey measurements: parasang, furlong, schoine, cubit...
Good on Herodotus for admitting the Egyptians did a better job calculating the length of the year than Greece.
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