What is a Historical Site?
According to Wikipedia, a historical site is "an official site preserving remains of political, military, cultural, or social history, because of their heritage values. Often it is called a heritage site. It is usually at least 50 years old and carries local, regional, national, or global importance." It does not mention who had written the entry.
We wonder, what makes a site "historical?" what and who makes a site not historical, just old? When does history begin, and when does it stop? 50 years ago? Was Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, for example, a historical site before 1995?
A historical site is usually formal, with signage and protection by law, and sometimes with entry fees. Can a mere ruin in the middle of nowhere be a historical site? Must a historical site be human-made? Can sand or a river be historical? Or should history be fixed in place, petrified? And how do you choose which history to tell, what heritage? Each place has more than one history. Is one memory necessarily an erasure of another?