History Revealed: Alexander the Great Fought the Yeti?

Posted by The HubMaster on Wed Feb 10 16:17:25 GMT 2010

Did Alexander the Great fight the Yeti when his troops invaded India? Dr. Miland Brown thinks the answer may be "yes".

Dr. Brown has posted the following on his blog this morning:

While reading the Anabasis Alexandri (Robson translation) at the Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham, I came upon a curious passage.

It reads as though Alexander's men, in the course of the invasion of India, fought a pitched battle with a tribe of Yeti! Very strange but it is indeed in the account from antiquity. Here is the passage that suggests Yeti's:

"Those captured were hairy, not only their heads but the rest of their bodies; their nails were rather like beasts' claws; they used their nails (according to report) as if they were iron tools; with these they tore asunder their fishes, and even the less solid kinds of wood; everything else they cleft with sharp stones; for iron they did not possess. For clothing they wore skins of animals, some even the thick skins of the larger fishes."

 Full article can be found here.

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