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Alexander’s Indus Folly: Bizarre Search for the Source of the Nile in India
When the Macedonian monarch Alexander III, popularly known as Alexander the Great , arrived in the northwest of the larger Indian subcontinent in 327 BC following his conquest of the massive Achaemenid Empire of the Persians, he was astonished by all that he beheld. The geography, peculiar peoples – their philosophy, culture, attire, music and manner of living – and immense wealth of the region was unlike anything he had witnessed before. The flora and fauna, too, were equally impressive. For instance, the parrot, a beautiful green-colored bird that they had never seen before, left the Greeks flummoxed because of its “
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At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained.
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