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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OOOH we find another connection! I’m passionate about history too, although for me my main passion is 19th century US women’s history.
Coming from the UK I’m very aware of ancient history and how it has affected much of our way of life. Rome for example is responsible for many of the road networks in the UK - they’ve been updated of course, but the Romans determined which were the quickest ways of getting from A to B. Of course, being born at the town that was at the end of the Roman Wall (the wall the ancient Romans built to keep out the Barbarians and which runs from East to West across Northern England and part of which are still standing today, as are some of their forts) means that ancient history is very much part of my heritage. Now I live in the land of the Vikings whose ancesters probably wrecked havoc on the area I came from. Man I love history!!
Looking forward to reading your posts here!
Katie-Anne
http://traveltheworld.today.com
You are so lucky. I’ve always wanted to go to all those cool places you see everyday. It would be so cool checking out Hadrian’s wall.
Thanks for stopping by and being my first commentor. I’m thrilled about this site.
Looking forward to reading more here!
Thanks Kaliliea.
Hopefully I’ll make this a very informative site, without boring everyone to death. LOL
They knocked down the street where my parents lived when I was born in order to build a newer housing development but when digging the foundations they found archaeological evidence of Roman activity. Apparently my old home was built atop a Roman Fort and is now a museum area. Cool huh?
This is a link to the museum: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/segedunum/
Oh, that is so cool.