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Herodotus's Legendary Fox Sized Gold Digging Ants

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Herodotus was a famous Greek historian of the ancient times who lived around 500 BC and he was born in Asia Minor in the Persian Empire. He was referred to as the Father of History as he wrote a lot of history and tales of the unknown from lands far off. One of his most intriguing account was the one of the legendary Gold digging ants, as big as Foxes, which lived in the high Himalayas in a land he called Dardae.

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tags: herodotus, marmot, ladakh, kargil
categories: Himalayan History
Friday 07.06.18
Posted by Prashant Mathawan
 

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