BARBIE LATZA NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Under the shadow of the Roman Colosseum, millions of people immerse themselves in ancient Roman history each year.
The expanding debris from this thousand year-old supernova is still moving into space at about 5 million kilometers per hour But the image is more than just a snapshot of ancient history.
More importantly, though, it was the first dynasty of the so-called New Kingdom, a period in ancient Egyptian history which is considered one of its " Golden Ages."
Scholars like Gu Jiegang, influenced by modern Western scientific perspectives on history, advocated for the removal of unreliable mythological legends from Chinese ancient history, labeling them " pseudo-history."
When they excavated, Victorian explorers found objects that revealed the area’s ancient history from skulls of extinct rhinos and elephants to much more recent Romano-British artefacts.