What got you into history?
I know I'm going to regret being this honest but:
It's probably because my first childhood crush was on Rami Malek as Ahkmenrah in 'Night at the Museum' (2006)
LET ME EXPLAIN:
1. I WAS EIGHT.
2. I grew up in NYC and so it was super cool to "see" the museum I went to all the time on school trips on the big screen.
3. Interestingly enough: before this I was actually TERRIFIED of mummies-I would literally bolt out any room if I saw any type of sarcophagus or body of any type.
4. While eight year old me did find Rami quite beautiful what I found even more fascinating was his costume and the set design of his exhibit!
5. I remember shortly after seeing the film going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art also in NYC and seeing the Temple of Dendur a Hellenistic temple located there!
Going inside the temple for the first time I felt like I had traveled back in time and was instantly in love and needed to know everything about Egypt! This turned me on to other histories such as Greece, Rome, Japan
And here I am over two decades later I'm going to school for archeology and history!
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