The corbel arch, a testament to early architectural ingenuity, stands as a gateway to civilizations past. This unique construction technique, where horizontal courses of stone or brick project inwards until they meet, predates the true arch and served as a crucial stepping stone in structural development. Its story, spanning continents and millennia, whispers of adaptation,…
Category: Knowledge
Recurrent and Gifted Knowledge
Historians are keen to assign the invention of an idea to the first person (or culture) we have on record as mentioning it. Even if that mention suggests that they received the idea from somewhere else. Ayahuasca, the hallucinogenic brew, is a combination of two plants native to the Amazon rainforest: the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the…