According to one particular scientist, the Kauravas, described in the Indian epic Mahabharata, were all clones. The epic describes a single mother giving birth to 100 sons, having been created by splitting a single embryo and growing each part in a separate kund (a traditional container).

“In other words,” Matapurkar said, “they not only knew about test-tube babies and embryo spliting but also had the technology to grow human foetuses outside the body of a woman-someting that is not known to modern science,” he aded.

Just because a legend sounds a little bit like something we think might be possible, doesn't mean that 5,000 years ago people were cloning each other in clay pots.