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Prateep Roy

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Category: Folklore

  • Were pyramids built by slaves?

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    Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash Is it true? Did the slaves build the pyramids? Let’s check it out! The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BCE), who wrote about the great pyramids of Giza, Egypt around 450 BCE, may have planted these perceptions. It is now considered a mix of facts, fiction, exaggeration, and folklore. Read.

  • Fear

    Photo by Katharina Roehler on Unsplash Villages in Bengal were picturesque, green, and with a lot of water bodies (ponds) in those days. It was in the 1970s and I was in my teens. The waves of consumerism had still not hit the shores of these villages. The villagers lived on myths as they had Read.