Sometimes it's such a strange thought that the people in the history books really lived and experienced and died - that there's so much more depth to history than anything I've seen with my own eyes; so much more life than anything I've lived.

A few days ago, I watched a program on Discovery Channel (I think) that was about the ancient Egyptian Civilization, its rise and fall over a period of several thousand years. And I experienced exactly the same thing! It is so remarkable and astonishing to "see" and know about people who were not only "different" from us but actually thrived on this planet a long time ago. And, it is amazing to imagine that five thousand years hence, people on Earth will actually look back at our time and be amazed by how we lived! That feeling/emotion is a profound one, to say the least!