European heritage of ancient cultures. 3 interdisciplinary essays

Essay from the year 2021 in the subject World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 1,3, University of Heidelberg (HCCH), course: Seminar Heritage in Interdisciplinary Perspective: Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept"e;, language: English, abstract: These are three essays on heritage in an interdisciplinary perspective. Diodorus Siculus, an antique historian, who was fascinated by the Rammesseum, translated the inscription on the base of one of his sculptures. He named Ramses II "e;Ozymandias"e; which was a wrong translation of his Throne Name which is "e;User-maat-Re"e;. Only after the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Jean Francois Champollion in 1822 Ramses II became more present. It is known that the population of ancient Rome was diverse in many ways. DNA studies of archaeological surveys show that during the time from 900 to 200 BC, the time when Rome grew and established its dominance by conquering the other parts of Italy, a lot of migration was happening. Genetic markers reflected ancestry from the Middle East and North Africa. From the early 1800s on literary tourism began to emerge and become more popular. Watson argues that it has something to do with the Europe-wide desire to connect books and localities with national identities and national literary cultures. During Victorian times literature first became accessible to the broader public which made possible the connection of certain literature pieces and national identity.