Mystery of History

We used Volume 1 of the Mystery of History last year. It's been amazing to see where events in ancient history lined up with Biblical history. We haven't kept up with our timeline as we should have, but it will definitely be a priority this coming year as we go through the 2nd volume.

The book is split up into 36 weeks. Each week has a *What Do You Know* pre-test, 3 events/biographies with activities, a list of events/people to add to the timeline, maps to complete, and a post-test. There are also quarterly and semester tests as well.

The events/biographies are about a page in length. They're fairly easy to read and understand. I'll be reading them aloud to the younger boys this year...but the older boys have read them on their own. The activities are awesome. For the older children the activities involve mostly research, but the younger ones have a lot of hands-on things to do. The middle activities are a good mix of both.

I really enjoyed how Linda Hobar intertwined ancient and modern maps. Some of the places we read about aren't on modern maps, but we were able to use ancient maps to find them and then superimpose them on the modern maps.

I highly recommend the Mystery of History. Currently there are 3 volumes out, but the goal is 5 volumes.