Do You Love Ancient History? Tell me about it!

As I mentioned above, I am in love with anything Ancient Egypt. I love any documentary about the lives of any historical figure that I can find info on...esp weird facts that a lot of people don't know. For instance, did you know that the 19 yr old wife of King Tutankamun (King Tut) was Ankhesenamun (his half sister) and when he died she virtually disappeared from history? They think she possibly married her advisor Aye...making him the next pharoah and that some even believe that Aye forced her to marry him to take the throne? No proof of any of that exists but their are hints of it in ancient texts and tomb writings. I also love facts and stories about the ancient Gladiators in Rome....some were slaves and forced to fight and some were volunteers and paid to fight..possibly to pay debts that they owed. My favorite Egyptian pharoah was actually Hatchepsut who married her half brother Thutmose II who died leaving her regent until her stepson became of age. She was famous bc she had temples built that showed her wearing mens clothes and a false beard to legitimize her rule and eventually claimed the throne for herself and ruled over a successful kingdom for over 20 yrs until her death and mysterious erasing from history by who most people believe was her stepson Thutmose III. Her name was actually chiseled off of temple walls! I could go on and on about mysterious and fascinating facts about historical figures. I am really looking forward to hear which ones move you to learn more about them.

I am a big history buff who loves history it is what I watch for fun most nights or as I am sitting in bed. I for the last 5 years played in a group called the SCA and it is a form or midevil reenactment from 5-1700 century and everyone creates a persona of their choice and when we go to the event it is like you are walking back in time. One series I have watched most recently was a two-person team that followed in the footsteps of queen victoria from the time she was a child till long after she was a queen. there is another that I loved and that was a stitch in time where they make all the costumes based on time, painting etc . a really good place to watch this stuff is on a app I have called Acorntv , it has everything ....

I've been curious about many ancient civilizations and places, starting with the Mound builders (Hopewell culture) in the midwest and then, my first trip abroad, to England I saw Stonehenge. After that I traveled a lot, Highlights: Egypt, Greece, Macha Pichu and HImalayans. I'd write much, much more to swap partners.

I am obsessed with history, my favorite being anything (all!) of Scottish history as well as the Vikings about the time that they invaded Jorvik (now York, England.) It is all very brutal, unfortunately, but their daily life intrigues me... along with their traditions and beliefs. Stonehenge is amazing! .I would love to travel to Egypt one day. I have been able to see Chichen Itza near Cancun, Mexico...I can only imagine what the Great Pyramids are like!

I apologize to each of you that it took a few days to assign partners. I was on the road driving down here to SC to see my only brother since the pandamic began so I was distracted for a moment...SO sorry. Hope you have enjoyed this swap. If any of you have any ideas of similar swaps, topic...etc let me know. I am open to ideas. I just enjoy having a conversation with all of you about interests we have in common.

Here we go, ancient History. I admit when i was in school i absolutely hated ancient history, in Italy we spend one year ( almost) on each civilization and on top of that i was taking Latin so omg it was history overload .. every so often i encounter a bit that really got me mesmerized, one of which is the Nazca lines. What exactly are the Nazca Lines? They are geoglyphs, drawings on the desert floor, found in southern Peru, covering a massive surface area of around 500 km2 (190 square miles). There are perfectly straight lines that stretch for several kilometers over hills and plains; zig-zags, spirals, wavy lines, concentric circles, triangles and rectangles; and also animal, plant and anthropomorphic figures. They are considered the most important group of geoglyphs on the planet due to their vast number and characteristics. Because of their massive size they can only be seen from the air, and for many years people drove over the lines without realising they were there at all. The impossibility to see them from ground level really makes you wonder how on earth such enormous figures could be drawn with such precision. But this is just one of the many questions the lines have raised over the years. Nobody knows who drew them in the first place, nor why, although there is no shortage of theories. there are so many theories on why, who and how these were built, yo can be very practical or very spiritual about them. The truth is that we will never probably know what they meant to the people that drew them. But it is nice to fantasize and imbue them with extra magic and mysteries. I was 13 when i discovered them and i even ( In my silly youth) wrote a scifi/fantasy story about them. They are on my bucket list and i would really love to see them first hand :) what are your thoughts about them?

Greetings fellow history buff, I enjoy reading about history. In high school (early 70s) I read several books on Hitler & his SS troops. It was beyond my mental capacity to understand how a person like Hitler came to power let alone had a following that allowed his atrocities. The medical tests that were performed on prisoners were horrific.

In my history class we studied the civil war in great detail. I lived just a few blocks away from the surrender of the south to the north at the Appomattox. As with any topic I studied in my younger years, it has been elaborated on over the years in greater details.

One of the main sources over the years is historical fixtion

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Some of the books i have read are: Authors Brock & Brodie Thoene. 9 books of the Zion Covenant series.

The Zion Chronicles series covers the events surrounding Israel's statehood in 1948. Each book vividly portrays the intense struggle of the Jewish people in the events that happened after WW2. The Gates of Zion, is a historical fiction that begins with a brief prologue set in Qumran, 68 C.E.. Jerusalem has just fallen to the Romans. A Jewish scribe quickly and carefully copies the last passages of the book of the Prophet Isaiah. Then he wraps the scroll in linen, coats the linen with pitch, and prepares to bury it in a clay jar - along with all the other scrolls. He makes sure, at this hour of his death, that the words of God will be preserved for future generations. The Dead Sea Scrolls are about to be hidden. Two millennia later, on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly, in its 128th plenary session, by a two-thirds vote (33 to 13 with Britain and nine others abstaining), passed Resolution 181 partitioning Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab national movement in Palestine, as well as all the Arab countries, angrily rejected partition. Almost immediately there was Arab violence against the Jews in Palestine.

The novel takes place out of the ashes of the Holocaust. With a great cast of characters. We have a young woman who is trying to get home to her grandfather in old Jerusalem. A young boy who lives with his grandfather, a archeologist who and a professor of archeology, his niece, Ellie Warne, who is a American photojournalist and a young decorated war hero fighter pilot.

Another author Ken Follett wrote the Pillars of the Earth in the time of the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. The author re-creates the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape.

Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves. The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. This story line shows just are hard it was to live in a time and place where your every day allegiances to one side of the authorities or the other. If you weren’t on the right side your family, business and total survival was at stake. Today to see a great cathedral built 1,000s of years ago still standing is great history.

Diana Gabaldon wrote a Scottish 9 book series of the Outlander. Story line of the Scottish people in early 1700s leading up to the English war at Culloden with the Scottish. After the battle in 1745, Scotland was changed forever. The English raided the country, taking prisoners shipping them off in servitude to the new country, (America) Of course, there’s a love story involved. But great history of Scotland too.

Dana Fuller Ross wrote a series of paperbacks beginning with Independence. Then the series continues with one almost every stat in the union. Each story line tells of the struggle each state went thru before joining the union of states in America. I enjoyed the history of the west.

Lastly, John Jakes writes the Kent Chronicles. 8 books with the story line of one family in France ending up in America.

I hope that you might find one of these authors to your liking.

History is fascinating. I like reading about it. I had an American History teacher in high school that warned us about "history" - he gave us 13 textbooks to read and outline. He said "once you read these, you will realize that most history is "his story: the opinion of the writer". You have to go deeper to find what really happened."...He was a smart man and I agree with him 100%. And yes, he encouraged research and debate about the findings!