In folk medicine, compounds of mercury have long been used: sulaim (HgCl2), calomel (Hg2Cl2), lapis (silver nitrate ...
Culture
The method of obtaining paint from the roots of rhubarb, which grows high in the mountains, was well known to the ...
The history of cultural development of humanity knows that ancient people, in a certain sense, were chemists in their ...
If we consider events spanning a longer geological time, the ideas expressed in the epic "Manas" are ...
Did the ancient Kyrgyz have ideas about the movement and structure of the Earth's surface? Did they have the ...
The close connection of the Kyrgyz as a nomadic people with their environment required them to have a concrete ...
Most geographical names in Kyrgyzstan have local etymology. The origin of several toponyms is connected with epics and ...
The study of folk geographical representations allows us to uncover the features of the formation of pre-scientific ...
A long time ago, high in the mountains at the foot of a gorge in Tar Alabyn (the Tar basin), there lived a beautiful ...
Long ago, in the Issyk-Kul basin, there was a city, around which stood a castle atop a steep mountain. Deep chasms and ...
People have long been aware of the disasters caused by natural phenomena. The Kyrgyz learned about the approach of an ...
Ancient Kyrgyz Ideas about the Structure of the World Human thought has never been satisfied with simply establishing ...