-Oishee Bose Imagine an empire covering deserts, mountains, and rainforests; governing millions of people; constructing roadways lengthier than those of ancient Rome and incredibly precise cities; but leaving no books, inscriptions or inked pages. Historians have wondered for centuries about this absence. Without writing, how did the Inca retain their history, administer their present, and […]Read More
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Aboriginal Songlines: The Oral Traditions and Spiritual Maps of Australia
The colonizers arrived in Australia in the year 1788, but before that Australia was inhabited by the aboriginal people, who had established rich and diverse cultures across the continent. They lived predominantly as hunter-gatherers, and even adapted to the varied environments of Australia’s deserts, rainforests, grasslands and coastal regions. They had several hundred distinct languages […]Read More