Ancient Civilizations

"Reasons for the Fall of Rome"

Medieval Krakow

This is an excellent website for teaching history to kids. It contains some fairly detailed information.

"The Gauls Sack Rome"

"Invasion by the Gauls"

Feature article in an onlinr travel mag.

"Ancient Greek kids had pets too"

In 1907, an archaeological team led by Thomas M. Davis discovered an intriguing pit in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. The pit was found to contain a number of artifacts, but none were particularly valuable (i.e., were not golden treasures and the like) and were generally regarded as uninteresting. It would be Howard Carter who would be the one to find "wonderful things" in the tomb of King Tut. But, did he unearth more?

Recently, there have been many interesting archaeological finds around the world, suggesting a much longer human history than was previously thought possible. Archaeologists in Indonesia unearthed the remains and tools of hominids that are being referred to in the media as "hobbits." This reference is due, in part, to the fact that, among their tiny remains, diggers discovered even tinier arrowheads, not much larger than a fingertip.\n\nInitially, these "hobbits" were thought to have lived 750,000 years ago, but almost immediately, their age was amended to 1.2 million years ago.\n\nNow, as reported in this article from Planetgreen.com, a 9 year-old youngster nearly stubbed his toe on the skull of a human ancestor that lived 2 million years ago! This new find puts humankind squarely in the Pleistocene era, a period marked by repeated glaciation followed by rapid warming of the Earth's surface.\n\nI pose the following hypothesis. I believe that there are things which humankind may have experienced long ago, things which were tumultuous and traumatic. Because of the upheaval caused by these events, they were passed along at an almost biologic level of understanding. For example, rapid thawing of massive amounts of ice would almost certainly have led to huge floods in at least some parts of the world. To these 2 million year-old ancestors of ours, or those yet to be discovered, these huge floods would have been terrifying to behold.\n\nCould this be why several seemingly disparate cultures maintain, in either their theology or history, that the world or some long-lost mythical place in the world was lost in some great deluge of water? I welcome your thoughts on this most fascinating topic.\n\n\n

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