Slitherine

Bloody bucket?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q ... 013497&t=k

So Civil war in the United States' battlefields are almost all is located and even preserved?
It happened around the mid-19 century, so it was almost 150 years before.

I'm beginning to wonder the oldest battlefield which is located and everyone can visit.
Babyron or Url or somewhere in Middle East, perhaps. Or somewhere in continent China, where there are old civilization.

Well the first real..big battle would be Kadesh (Rameses II vs Muwatallish) on Sinai Peninsula (just outside egypt) but Im sure that Sargon of Akkad had to fight some people to unite messoptamia.

EDIT: But there was civilisation on the banks of the Euphrates before there was in china afaik...You could always go to Catal Huyuk in turkey...its in the pontos region. was around at about 6,000BC

Possum, you mis-read my statement about Livy. I did not say that he wasn't a liar, I merely suggested that he might have taken the first part of your insult as a compliment, and the remainder might have been seen as irrelevant to what he was trying to achieve. Consider the modern "scandal" tabloids, and what they are about. It doesn't matter that the articles are blatantly false, or at the very least stretching a pathetically feeble amount of truth to its breaking point, the point is to entertain and sell copies. Two thousand years from now, if some future researcher digs up a copy of the National Inquirer or the Midnight Star, will they take the contents as being factual? I hope not.