User talk:Rahul kumar pancholi

What is history ?
THE BASIC AIMS of history are to record and explain our past. Historians study arange of written and oral(spoken) evidence. Combined with archeology(the study of things people have left behind them, such as buildings and objects), historian interpret the facts to build up a picture of the past. The first people to study history seriously were the ancient Greeks. In the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus(known as"the father of history")set out to write a true and systematic record of the wars between the Greeks and the persians. He hoped to preserve the memory of past events and show how two peoples came into conflict with one another. The scientific study of archaeology only began in the 18th century. Archaeologists today investigate even the tiniest fragments left behind by our ancestors to help create a more complete picture of the past.