Gold-Digging Ants! Herodotus on India, Part 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

(Herodotus' account of India starts a bit earlier) Herodotus, 3. 102-105 "Other Indians live near the city Kaspatyrus and the Paktyic country, north of the rest of Indian, and these Indians live most like the Bactrians and are most bellicose. These are the Indians sent for gold in the area made desolate by the sands.…

Herodotus - A Quick Look at his Life and the Gold-digging Ants of India

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Ants & mankind involved with finding gold.

TIL that ancient Greek historian Herodotus once reported that there existed gold-digging ants. This was most likely a translation error. But there are marmots in the Himalayas of the Deosai plateau where

2_golden_histories_antsA_small, 2. The Gold-Digging Ants of…

Gianna Pomata (Editor), Nancy G. Siraisi (Editor) - Historia - Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Transformations - Studies in The History of Science and Technology) (2006), PDF, Humanism

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