#ANCIENT HISTORY SCATTERGORIES LISTS FULL#

Thus, when we learn about ancient history, we essentially explore a lost world of long, long ago. What we have learned about everyday people from ancient history has come from piecing together whatever scattered clues we can uncover, like from the ruins they left behind, the tombs they were buried in, and the objects and artifacts that they held dear. The everyday lives of everyday people and the ways they lived were hardly ever recorded, and more often than not, have been condemned to be forgotten. Ancient scribes would write down the names of kings and conquests but rarely much more than that. Yet, as many of these facts as we can compile, the truth is that much of ancient history was simply never recorded. But to the people of the ancient world, such facts were merely the hard realities of everyday life. Some of the most illuminating facts about ancient history have been censored out of textbooks because they can appear disgusting or disturbing or offensive in the context of our modern world.

These stories, the raunchy ones or the unsavory ones that we haven't heard of in the classroom, can give us a more intimate glimpse into what it was really like to have lived in a totally different time - better than a censored version of history ever could.

#ANCIENT HISTORY SCATTERGORIES LISTS FULL#

Beyond the well-known - the pyramids, kings, and wars that fill our textbooks- the history of our world is full of incredible stories, societies, and lives that most of us will never hear about. Turns out school doesn't teach us all we need to know about ancient history.

Ancient history scattergories lists