Chasing Rabbit Trails in Ancient History

Follow the rabbit trail or “do the curriculum”? Always take the time to follow! . . When the IEW paper you’re outlining is about Gilgamesh and you (cute overall-ed kid) start asking extra questions, Mom should listen. Especially when Mom has tried redirecting several times and failed 😋 . If you (kid) slide the writing out of the way, you can pull out the giant timeline book. Then you can realize Gilgamesh was at the time of Noah and before the flood. The tablets were found in Ninevah and see the giant statues from the Assyrian palace in your book from Ninevah. Connection! You’ve seen those in real life and remember them! 🇬🇧 . Flipping through the phone two years, brings back amazing memories of the British Museum, and you want to show Dad the connections you’ve made with all of it. Those sculptures were found about the same time and go together. . Then Mom will find you the National Geographic and show you the broken Gilgamesh tablets, and you will declare you need to go back and stay at the British Museum for days. Sister and Mom will curl up with history magazines for the rest of the night with the writing assignment all forgotten…while kid is in dish duty. Life is hard. . . Then mom books ✈️tickets to London for next week because it’s needed to deepen the rabbit hole… Not! Sigh. Mom did spend five minutes daydreaming. . . Life lesson? Rabbit trails are always worth it, the British Museum requires several days, and always travel! So when do we get to go back?