Did Helen of Troy really exist ? Quick Facts

Did Helen of Troy exist ? Part 1 #Shorts #minidocumentary
Did Helen of Troy exist ? Part 2 #Shorts #minidocumentary

The existence of Helen of Troy is still a debate. Let me explain. While the Trojan war, most likely existed and Agamemnon, Menelaus, Odysseus, and Priam probably existed, the existence of Helen of Troy is questionable. There is no archeological or documented evidence of her existence, and she is rather a legend. Trojan war existed but it was due to political and economic reasons.

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What is Buddhism? Quick Facts on Mauryan Empire

What is Buddhism? #Shorts #minidocumentary
Quick Facts Mauryan Empire #Shorts #minidocumentary

What is Buddhism?

What is Buddhism? Ouick Facts on Mauryan Empire. Find out more!

Did you know that it is the world’s fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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What is Sikhism? Quick Facts about the Sikh Empire

Who was the Maharaja Ranjit Singh? #Shorts #minidocumentary

What is Sikhism? #Shorts #minidocumentary

Did you know that Sikhism is the fifth major religion? Sikh Religion has 25 million followers mainly in Pakistan and India in the area named Punjab. They have large community in US and Canada.

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Mini Timeline History of Medicine

Mini Timeline History of Medicine #Shorts #minidocumentary

8000 BC

8000 BC Shamans are first using trepanation with success. Some patients did not even survive but they came back for more. The reasons trepanations were performed in Neolithic are unknown.

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Why do humans walk upright? Quick Facts

Why do humans walk upright?

Why do humans walk upright? #Shorts #minidocumentary

The humans use 75 percent less energy walking upright than the chimps use walking on all fours. Walking upright seemed to be beneficial because it saved energy.

Having two limbs free to use tools constituted a key element of advanced intelligence.

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Are the stories about hominids wrong or deceitful?

Are the stories about hominids wrong? #Shorts #abcfacts

Scientists have recently renamed fossils of certain hominids and created a new type of hominid called Homo Bodoensis.

The name comes from the Bodo skull discovered in 1976 in Bodo D’ar, Ethiopia, on the Awash River in Africa.

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Did you know Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus?

Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus? #Shorts #minidocumentary

Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had strabismus?

Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci had a form of strabismus that could have facilitated his artistic work?

Examination of 6 likely portraits and self-portraits of da Vinci shows that most paintings exhibit a consistent exotropic strabismus angle of −10.3°.

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Diseases humans inherited from Neanderthals

Diseases inherited from Neanderthals #Shorts #minidocumentary

Did you know that difficulty in quitting smoking is coming from Neanderthals?

They passed on genes involved in type 2 diabetes, Crohn’s disease, depression,  and  smoking addiction.

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Amazing Neanderthals sophisticated burial habits. Quick Facts

Neanderthals burial habits #Shorts #minidocumentary

Recent evidence suggests Neanderthals had sophisticated burial habits.

Shanidar cave archeological site in Iraq revealed amazing things on our cousins. They buried intentionally  their dead.

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