(April 7, 2022 at 6:45 am)Jehanne Wrote:(April 6, 2022 at 11:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: How was the fact-checking back then?
Practically nonexistent. The father of history, Herodotus, relates that he wrote what others told him, hence, his stories of giant gold digging ants.
It was a rhetorical question, but yeah.