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Archive for August 28th, 2008

Aug 28 2008

Where does ancient history begin?

Welcome to the Ancient History blog here at Today.com. This site will be dedicated to all things ancient. Not just ancient religions, but lives of the common folk. If it’s got something to do with the ancient world, it will be here.

Now, the first thing we should determine is where to draw that line between ancient and modern time lines. There are several schools of thought on this, so I’m going with my own feelings on this. The way I look at it is this, anything that happened before the reign of King Henry IIIV is ancient history. I’m sure I’ll add a few tidbits of information about this king and maybe even his daughter, Queen Elizabeth I. However, for me, anything that happened from this point in time on is relatively boring.

In the coming months, I’ll be looking at all the major ancient topics such as Egyptian culture, the Roman world, Greek philosophies, and that sort of thing. But, we’ll also be looking at things that you don’t hear about on a regular basis. Such as daily lives of the common people, weird discoveries in the archaeological realm, and of course, dinosaurs.

A lot of really cool things happened throughout history, and most of it happened before our own time. I want to bring to light all the things that I find interesting, and that the rest of the world sees as being Ancient History.

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