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The life and murder of ancient scholar Hypatia of Alexandria #OmniumGatherum https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/05/10/the-life-and-murder-of-ancient-scholar-hypatia-of-alexandria/

An avowed paganist in a time of religious strife, Hypatia was also one of the first women to study math, astronomy and philosophy

Few people in the ancient world could read or write. Even many kings and emperors needed to employ special scribes to make records of their orders and achievements. Unsurprisingly, then, libraries were few on the ground. But those libraries that did exist were often magnificent. Rulers used them to showcase…

To most of the western world, China has always been a mystery, a teeming mass of people in crowded cities, threatening to expand over its borders impelled by its own growth. In fact, while the Han Chinese are the majority of the population, there are over fifty officially recognized ethnic…

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