So, you want to live in ancient ______?
So, you want to live in ancient ______? Just fill in the country.
Would you like to float down the Nile with the Pharaohs or listen to the priests chanting in the temple of Amun at Karnak?
Perhaps you would like to discuss philosophy in the schools of ancient Athens or debate politics in the Roman Forum?
Climb the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? View the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan from atop a pyramid (without being the sacrifice of the day, of course)?
Learn to grow maize and pumpkins with the people of Kahokia, the great ancient metropolis of the American Midwest?
Be a priest in ancient Angor, or an architect in the ancient cities of China?
Or, perhaps you would like to try a bit of all of them?
Come with us as we explore “Everyday life in ancient times.”
Each post will present a different civilization. We will explore life from the perspectives of those holding the highest social ranks, the middle classes, and those who’s social ranking is so low they have the ground to hold them up.
Next time we will begin with a prehistoric civilization. There were high achievements in both art and architecture long before writing was invented.
Till Then
Digs
May 14th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
I’m so looking forward to this series, Digs!
May 15th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Me too. There’s so much I’d like to know.
Like, for instance, how did they call for take out before the phone was invented?
May 15th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
I hope you will have some pieces on the prehistoric Americas. Just today there was an item in my paper about new discoveries in the Peruvian Andes.
I’d love to see a review of what’s know about the Mound Builders of North America.
Since these societies didn’t leave a written record we’re left to imagine their lives from the bits and pieces coming to light. It seems there were far more advanced civilizations in the Americas than what I learned about in school.
May 15th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Hi Czh - - ancient civilizations of the Americas will be covered. I’m also trying to cover lesser known ancient civilizations, such as Catal Huyuk, which many people have never even heard of.
The Americas have many of these, as well as the more widely knows Aztecs, Incas, etc.
When it comes to North America, Mound Builders, etc, there will be some surprises in store.
Stay tuned.
And Paffy, some ancient cultures did have “take out.” Will tell you how later.
You stay tuned also.
Digs