Before revision: File:History collage.png|thumb| A collage of various records of history (clockwise from top-left): Papyrus of Herodotus' Histories Mongolian translation of the Secret History of the Mongols Books of the General History of Africa First page of the Codex Mendoza English translation of Kalhana's Rajatarangini Map of Europe in the 8th century from an 1854 edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Manuscript of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah Early Heian copy of the Nihon Shoki Workshop on oral history in Otjinene, Namibia History (derived ) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
After revision: A collage of various records of history (clockwise from top-left): History (derived ) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.