How Herodotus recorded evidence of Africa's circumnavigation

An ancient sailing story contained evidence its author did not understand

Herodotus wrote that Phoenician sailors saw the Sun to their north while sailing around Africa. He found the claim strange, but it is exactly what sailors could see after traveling south of the equator. A detail he doubted became evidence that the voyage may really have happened.

No single organization governs the whole Internet

The Internet is made of many independently run networks. Groups such as IANA and ICANN coordinate shared names and identifiers, but they do not act as one central government controlling the entire Internet.

A cat was buried with a person

9,500 years ago

A grave in Cyprus held an eight-month-old cat buried with a human. The burial predates ancient Egyptian civilization and is the earliest known sign of a close connection between people and cats.

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How Herodotus recorded evidence of Africa's circumnavigation

An ancient sailing story contained evidence its author did not understand

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