Was their tourism or pilgrimage from Alexandria and other parts? Were there conservation efforts and reverence for the past? I know Cleopatra ruled from Alexandria, and was also wondering if there's any evidence that she visited the great pyramids at Giza and what type of ceremonies if any would she have attended at the site? Would she have been recognised by the priesthood as the successor of the great pharaos? Or was there no priesthood there by that time?

More importantly, would they (the priests, the scholars of her time) have known what the pyramids were built for originally? Was Cleopatra aware they were burial monuments and would she have known who was buried there? Or would they have thought they were ancient temples, perhaps built by the gods? Did they find them perhaps mysterious and inscrutable, as they did not have access to archaeology? Or alternatively, was oral and written tradition stable, strong and continuous in a way that they would have known even much more than we do, although thousands of years had passed? What do the historians of her time tell us about these ancient monuments, if not Egyptian historians then at least Roman and Greek ones?

Hopefully this is an acceptable question here! When it comes to entities such as Arduinna, Rosmerta, Sirona, etc., is there any sort of agreed upon standard of pronunciation? I'm not that learned/familiar with the timeline of when these were actively worshiped, assuming that would even be of any help. Would these based on Latin, Irish, some other member of the Celtic family of languages, or perhaps no standard at all? Any advice is appreciated!

Pronunciation of Gallo-Roman/Celtic gods & Goddesses

Specifically I'm curious about the role of woman, speaking to arab muslims about it they seem pretty steadfast on the idea that pre-islamic arabia was a barbarous place that hated woman and would bury daughters alive if more then one was born or the tribe fell on hard times and it wasn't until the prophet came with Islam that it changed this culture and mindset. I find this quite hard to believe.

Hey, I'm currently on the last year of high school and I'm required to do a research on anything I want, as a preparation for University. I want to become an historian (medievalist), therefore I decided to write an article about Byzantium, more specifically, about the byzantine political-administrative system and its influence on the modern western state. While it's a high school research, I want to do good stuff, and if I like the subject I can even continue with it throughout my career. Therefore, I'd like to know if someone could recommend me some good books on byzantine history and administration. I already have the History of the Byzantine Empire by A.A Vasiliev, but its probably outdated. Thanks for reading and have a nice day.

It was a war fought on many continents and forever shifted the balance of power to Britain in the colonial scene and put Prussia in a position to unite Germany. Why is it not considered a world war?

I've read a few excerpts from European traders in India during the 17th and 18th centuries that express awe at the wealth of the ruling class, and surprise/dismay/pity at the extreme poverty of the peasantry - even when compared to European peasants.

What did Indian peasant housing look like?

How much food did they have? What was their access to meat, fish, dairy?

What did they wear? Did they have multiple changes?

What did they have in terms of furniture, tools, cookware, etc?

Why did the Germans decide to keep some alive in the horrible conditions we read about from novels like “night”? If the Germans were murdering thousands a day, why did they decide to feed a few 100 bread and soup and keep them alive?

My interest in this region relates to my grandmother, who was born in the Trutnov area in the early 1930s. I've only heard whispers, that she was "abused by soldiers" and had other horrific experiences that lead to her committing suicide as an older adult (that's the extent of my info, and it was whispered to me, like "fourth hand"). She and her family were expelled from their homes and sent to Germany after the war (she would've been middle school aged) at the end of World War 2. The only information I got about that was "They walked, taking only what fit in a wagon." Additionally, she was very Catholic -- not sure how relevant that might be to research.

I'm struggling to convince google to give me the information I'm looking for. I'm looking for any info people might have, key words, references, etc. I would be really grateful for the chance to learn about what her life might have been like, since I will never get to know what it was actually like.

I have read the wikipedia pages in regards to Sudentenland and the Explusion of Germans from Czechoslovakia), but some times it can get very convoluted and more politics focused, vs the personal level of what average people were experiencing. The person who told me about abuse at the hands of "soldiers" seemed to imply it was Nazi soldiers, but I'm not sure if that makes sense, but obviously that isn't a question any one wants to ask at the family reunion.

Thank you for your consideration and any information you can point me to.

(Hopefully this is not "trivia" seeking as I am keen to learn about this region on multiple fronts, and it is not a "privacy issue" as I assume many people have descended from the ethnic Germans who were expelled from Bohemia.)

I'm reading "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life," by Walter Isaacson.

It says that, under Franklin, postal riders traveled at night.

"A letter sent from Philadelphia to Boston could receive a reply within six days, and a round-trip to New York could be done within twenty-four hours, a service that seems remarkable even now."

The modern postal service sends trucks and planes out at night, but we can't send a letter and get a reply within 24 hours, even with all our advanced technology.

So how was Franklin's system so efficient? Did he organize things in a fashion much different than what came before?

I'd also be interested in knowing how oral history plays a role in the creation of these maps. Thanks!

Do we know of any communities or individuals who thought of themselves as British subjects for much longer into the United States’ existence than most would presently expect?

I want to learn more about classical Greece and I wondered if anyone in here has listened to it and can recommend it or any other podcast about Classical Greece. I have a work where I can listen for 8 hours so any good podcasts would be appreciated

I don't really know how much information historians have to offer, so here's what I found online (before asking the question) :

Most of the emperors and their family members were buried in their sarcophagi and in different mausoleums. It seems like we have very detailed accounts of the locations of those burial places.

Constantine I and many others were buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles, it was the main burying place, but became overcrowded with time.

During the sack of Constantinople, crusaders robbed the dead emperors of their valuables. Their imperial purple silk robes were snatched, unwoven and sold off. They are said to have found the body of Justinian I almost in perfect condition (not decomposed).

After 1453 the patriarch was transferred to the Church of the Holy Apostles from Hagia Sophia, but soon after he was made to leave that place too. The church was destroyed and Mehmet II built a mausoleum for himself there.

[This info comes from an article written by a russian orthodox historian, so yeah please fact check] : Ottomans destroyed all the tombs of the emperors and the only one to survive was the body of the Andronikos Palailogos, who died in a monastery after being overthrown and buried unceremoniously and secretly under the gateway of a small church, thus avoiding all the vandalism done by the Ottomans.

So yeah, that's all I was able to collect online and I hope someone experienced in Ottoman/Roman history would be able to fact check those and add other informations and present a fuller picture.

After the Reichstag Fire, Hitler was able to convince Von Hindenburg to declare martial law in Germany.

At the time I was under the impression that Hitler and the National Socialist Party weren’t the majority populist party in Germany (I may be wrong about that), even though Hitler was Chancellor at the time.

Was there an outcry against martial law being declared, or were most Germans in support of it?

Bare with me as I try to word this question best I can:

So if you look to history and look at most of the advanced technologies, they didn't come from Europe. Most came from either China, India, or the Middle East.

If you look at resource-rich areas, while Europe definitely belongs on that list, so do the aformentioned regions.

And if you again ask what some of the most advanced societies were back in the day, again, there appears to be more within Asia and the Middle East, at least during the early parts of human history, with more popping up in Europ gradually over time.

So perhaps it's a loaded question, but is there any concensus on what exactly made Europe such a successful standout as time went on? Pre-Rome, all of the major empires were not in Europe. Then you have Rome, which while obviously important in history, was not necessarily the strongest empire of the time, no? After Rome there's a lot of infighting within Europe and instability (and to be fair, China did this in spades), and yet as the middle ages advance onward and slowly creep towards colonialism, Europe begins to stand out as being in the driver's seat.

Is there a clear concensus on what Europe did right that the other regions did not do as well? Was it trade? Exploration? Tactics? Was the sheer amount of various warring cultures actually an advantage that demanded faster advancement?

Sorry I couldn't be more specific/exact with this question, but a problem with formulating/asking the question is I'm ignorant about at which exact point in time Europe began to truly overtake the rest of the world, so it's difficult for me to narrow it down more.