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the ancient mystery of The Phaistos Disk

fig tree — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:59:18 +0000

solving a mystery that has always plagued me

sources sighted 👀
Bennet, J (2001). “Agency and Bureaucracy: Thoughts on the Nature and Extent of Administration at Bronze-Age Pylos”. In S. Voutsaki; J. Killen (eds.) Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palatial States. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society.

Duhoux, Y. (2000). “How not to decipher the Phaistos Disc: a review article”. American Journal of Archaeology, 104(3).

Eisenberg, J. (2008). “The Phaistos Disk: one hundred year old hoax?”. Minerva.

Evans, A. (1909) Scripta Minoa, vol. 1. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Godart, L. (1995) The Phaistos Disc: the enigma of an ancient script. Heraklion: Itanos Publications.

Jeppesen, K. (1962). “Some remarks on the Archaeological Placing of the Phaistos Disc”. KUML.

Judson, A. (2020). The Undeciphered Signs of Linear B: Interpretation and Scribal Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Karagianni, A. (2015). “Linear B Administration: The Communicative Aspects of Written Media and the Organisation of the Mycenaean Bureaucracy”. In R. Sauer; S. Enderwitz (eds.) Communication and Materiality: Written and Unwritten Communication in Pre-Modern Societies. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Matz, F. (1972). The Art of Greece and Early Greece: the Prelude to Greek Art. New York: Crown Publishers.

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Dionysus, the god of madness || Euripides' Bacchae

fig tree — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:30:00 +0000

cheers

00:00 hey
00:34 dionysus & the mysteries
11:31 THE BACCHAE
14:44 Prologue
22:57 I
31:24 II
35:05 III
43:21 IV
46:12 V
51:02 bye

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References

Aronen, J. (1992). “Notes on Athenian Drama as Ritual myth-telling within the cult of Dionysos,” Arctos–Acta Philologica Fennica, 26, 19–37.

Barrengos, I. (2019). “Spirit Possession, Mediation, and Ambiguity in the Ancient Greek Worship of Dionysos,” Honors Theses, Bates College. 301

Belknap, G. N. (1934). “The Date of Dicaeopolis’ Rural Dionysia,” The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 54, 77–78.

Berberovic, N. (2015) “Ritual, myth and tragedy: Origins of theatre in Dionysian rites,” Epiphany, 8(1), 30–38.

Burkert, W. (1987). Ancient Mystery Cults. Harvard: Harvard University Press.

Chaniotis, A. (2007). “Theatre Rituals,” in The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies. Peter Wilson (Ed.), 48–66. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Csaspo, E. (1997). “Riding the Phallus for Dionysus: Iconology, Ritual, and Gender-
Role De/Construction,” Phoenix, 51(3/4), 253–295.

Csapo, E. (2016). "The 'Theology' of the Dionysia and Old Comedy". In Eidinow, Esther (ed.). Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 118.

Diodorus Siculus. (1935). Library of history (C. H. Oldfather, Trans.; Vol. 2). Harvard University Press. (Original work published ca. 60–30 BCE)

Easterling, P. E. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Euripides. (2002). The Bacchae (D. Kovacs, Trans.). Harvard University Press.

Goette, H. R. (2014). “The Archaeology of the ‘Rural’ Dionysia in Attica,” in Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century B.C, 77–106. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Kontomichos, F., Papadakos, C., Georganti, E., Vovolis, T., & Mourjopoulos, J. (2014). “The sound effect of ancient Greek theatrical masks,” International Conference on Mathematics and Computing, 1444–1452

Montgomery, H.C. ( 1942). "Some Later Uses of the Greek Tragic Chorus". The Classical Journal. 38 (3): 148–160.

Moraw, S. (2012). Visual Differences: Dionysos in Ancient Art. In R. Schlesier (Ed.), A
Different God?: Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism, 233–252. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

Näsström, B.-M. (2003). “The rites in the mysteries of Dionysus: the birth of the drama,” Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 18, 139–148.

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Schuddeboom, F.L. (2009). Greek Religious Terminology – Telete & Orgia: A Revised and Expanded English Edition of the Studies by Zijderveld and Van Der Burg (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 169). Leiden: Brill.

Seaford, R. (1981). “Dionysiac Drama and the Dionysiac Mysteries,” The Classical Quarterly, 31(2), 252–275.

Townsend, R. F. (1986). “The Fourth-Century Skene of the Theater of Dionysos at Athens, ” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 55(4), 421–438.

Varakis-Martin, A. (2004). “Research on the Ancient Mask,” Didaskalia, 6(1).

Wescoat, B.D. & R.G. Ousterhout (eds). (2012). Architecture of the Sacred: Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wilson, P. (2018). “The Theatres and Dionysia of Attica,” Πλειών: Papers in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, 1, 97–144.

The Hittite Empire; what inspired the trojan war

fig tree — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:31:19 +0000

guys, im connecting the dots...

0:00 welcome home
1:28 who are the hittites
4:52 Old Kingdom
6:37 Middle Kingdom
7:06 New Kingdom
8:39 the Dakhamunzu affair
11:40 Muršili II
12:48 plague!!
18:10 the battle of Kadesh
21:44 Piyama-Radu & Ahhiyawa
24:33 Ḫattušili III
32:23 Achilles
37:24 fall of the empire
39:36 luv ya

art in thumbnail by Ivan Koltovich

sources;
Breyer, F. (2010). Egyptological Remarks Concerning Daḫamunzu. Ägypten Und Levante / Egypt and the Levant, 20, 445–451.

Bryce, T. (2003). Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age (1st ed.). Routledge.

Freewalt, J. A. (2017). Ay And The Daḫamunzu Affair. A Master’s Thesis. American Military University, Charles Town WV.

Güterbock, H. G. (1956). The Deeds of Suppiluliuma as Told by His Son, Mursili II. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 10(2), 41–68.

Hoffner, H. A., & Melchert, H. C. (2024). A Grammar of the Hittite Language: Part 1: Reference Grammar (2nd ed.). Penn State University Press.

Kopanias, K. (2018) 'Deconstructing Achilles. The Stories About Piyamaradu And The Making Of A Homeric Hero', in ΕΥΔΑΙΜΩΝ: Studies in honour of Jan Bouzek. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University; Masaryk University, 51-64.

Roux, G. (1993). Ancient Iraq. London: Penguin.

Euripides' Medea | The Tragedy of Womanhood

fig tree — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:33:52 +0000

i missed you guys

0:00 happy new year
0:11 euripides & the dionysia
4:12 jason and the argonauts
12:10 the medea
1:01:58 the end
1:05:15 medea as woman
1:07:00 medea as foreigner
1:08:57 medea as god
1:09:48 thousand yard stare

sum sources
Allan, W. 2002. Euripides: Medea. London: Duckworth.

Chondros, T. G., 2004. “Deus-Ex-Machina Reconstruction and Dynamics,” International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, Proceedings of the HMM2004, M. Ceccarelli, ed., Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.

Hyginus (2011). The Orphic Argonautica [The Fabulae of Hyginus]. Albany, New York: Jason Colavito. pp. 58–59, 12th and 13th Fabulae

Menelaou, I. 2021. “Euripides Medea the theatricality of madness”, Research and Humanities in Medical Education. 116-119.

Michelini, A. N. 2006. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Rehm, R. 1992. Greek Tragic Theatre. London: Routledge

Tsakoumaki, M. 2010. “’Deus-Ex-Machina’ Mechanism Reconstruction in the Theater of Phlius, Corinthia.” Journal of Mechanical Design, 132:1-9.

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The Etruscans: how they divined the will of the gods

fig tree — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:28:04 +0000

gonna have to call you back im seeing god in the organs of a sheep

00:00 howdy
00:51 who, what, when, where?
07:36 why?
18:31 augury
20:33 lightning
21:20 haruspicy

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sauces (yum):
Boëthius, A. et al. 1962. Etruscan culture: Land and people. Malmö, Sweden: Allhem Publishing House. 28

Bogdanović, B. 1976. Disciplina Etrusca: A ritualistic approach to the philosophy of nature and the city. Ekistics, 42(253), 329–331.

Burkert, W. 1992. The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age, 46–51.

De Grummond, N. T. 2016. Thunder versus Lightning in Etruria. Etruscan Studies, 19(2), 183-207.

De Grummond, N. T. & Simon, E. 2006. The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press.

Dennis, G. 1985. Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (P. Hemphill, Ed.). Princeton University Press.

Guittard, C. 2012. Etrusca Disciplina: How Was It Possible to Learn about Etruscan Religion in Ancient Rome? Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe. 63-75.

Haarmann, H. 2014. Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean. Ethnicity and Language in the Ancient Mediterranean, 17-33.

Haynes, S. 2005. Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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Potts, C. R., & Smith, C. J. 2022. The Etruscans: Setting New Agendas. Journal of archaeological research, 30(4), 597–644. doi:10.1007/s10814-021-09169-x

Rasmussen, T. 2011. Etruscan Ritual and Religion. The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of ritual and religion, edited by Insoll, T., 710-21. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Turfa, J. M. 2012. Divining the Etruscan World: the Brontoscopic Calendar and Religious Practice. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Stevens, N. L. C. 2009. A New Reconstruction of the Etruscan Heaven. American Journal of Archaeology, 113(2). Archaeological Institute of America.

Rituals and Rites of history || mummies, the underworld, and more

fig tree — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:51:36 +0000

boo!

source; the crow told me.
also here: https://open.substack.com/pub/figtree7/p/the-archaeology-of-death?r=4kplsi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

00:00 hey
01:52 the Jericho plastered skulls
09:22 the Mesopotamian afterlife
17:35 the oldest mummies
26:26 happy halloween

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A brief overview of human evolution | HOMO HISTORY

fig tree — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:00:46 +0000

talking about the family

sources;
https://substack.com/profile/276651666-fig-tree/note/c-156056479

0:00 hey
1:05 the entirety of life on this planet
4:38 homo habilis
6:42 homo rudolfensis
8:17 homo erectus
17:08 homo heidelbergensis
20:57 homo neanderthalensis
28:41 homo denisova
31:33 homo floresiensis
36:03 homo sapiens
42:25 bye

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Sophocles' Theban Plays | Oedipus Rex & Antigone

fig tree — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:26:35 +0000

tragic one today

0:00 hey
0:53 ancient greece??
4:34 the legend of oedipus
6:50 oedipus tyrannus
24:56 oedipus at colonus
40:19 antigone
1:07:19 see ya!

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AKHENATEN | the reign of Egypt’s most radical Pharaoh

fig tree — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:39:02 +0000

missed you guys!
here’s Akhenaten, absolute weirdo, love him

sources!

Bryan, B., & Kozloff, A. (1992). Egypt's dazzling sun: Amenhotep III and his world.

Christie, J (2016). Akhenaten’s Amarna in New Kingdom Egypt: Relations of Landscape and Ideology. Political Landscapes of Capital Cities, University Press of Colorado, pp. 25–64.

Dodson, A. (1990). Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the Eighteenth Dynasty. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 76, 87–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/3822009

Gohary, O (1992). Akhenaten's Sed-festival at Karnak. Studies in Egyptology (1st ed.). London; New York: Kegan Paul International.

Johnson, W. R. (1996). The Revolutionary Role of the Sun in the Reliefs and Statuary of Amenhotep III. Bulletin of the Oriental Institute, 151, 1-4.

Moran W. L. (1992). The Amarna Letters. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Nims, C. F. (1973). The Transition from the Traditional to the New Style of Wall Relief under Amenhotep IV. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 32(1/2), 181–187.

O'Connor, D. B., & Cline, E. H. (2001). Amenhotep III: perspectives on his reign. University of Michigan Press.

Redford, D. (2013). Akhenaten: New Theories and Old Facts. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 369, 9–34. https://doi.org/10.5615/bullamerschoorie.369.0009

Murujuga: Prehistoric Rock Art vs Industry

fig tree — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:17:00 +0000

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The First Known Story Ever Written | analysing the Epic of Gilgamesh

fig tree — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:00:13 +0000

hey kids time for ur bedtime story

00:00 intro
1:36 the written word
3:12 versions of the text
The Epic of Gilgamesh
5:40 TABLET I
13:44 TABLET II
17:35 TABLET V
20:01 TABLET VI
24:49 TABLET VII
29:00 TABLET VIII
31:19 TABLET IX
36:05 TABLET X
41:44 TABLET XI
51:15 The end
The States of Being
53:46 ANIMAL
57:21 MAN
1:00:26 GOD

source?
https://open.substack.com/pub/figtree7/p/the-first-story-ever-written-the?r=4kplsi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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How Göbeklitepe Redefined the Ancient World

fig tree — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 21:48:32 +0000

thinking about mesopotamia again …

sources cited;
https://open.substack.com/pub/figtree7/p/gobekli-tepe-the-archaeological-discovery?r=4kplsi&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=post-publish

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tags
archaeology, ancient history, Anatolia, Fertile Crescent, history

When did humans start making music?? || On the Origin of Song

fig tree — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:32:15 +0000

hope you didnt forget about me

sources cited 2day

Barnett, R.D. (1969) ‘New facts about musical instruments from ur’, Iraq, 31(2), p. 96. doi:10.2307/4199874.

Belyk, M. and Brown, S. (2017) ‘The origins of the vocal brain in humans’, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 77, pp. 177–193. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.03.014.

Brown, S. (1999) ‘The “Musilanguage” model of music evolution’, The Origins of Music, pp. 271–300. doi:10.7551/mitpress/5190.003.0022.

Conard, N.J., Malina, M. and Münzel, S.C. (2009) ‘New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany’, Nature, 460(7256), pp. 737–740. doi:10.1038/nature08169.

Conard, N. and Malina, M. (2008). ‘New evidence for the origins of music from the caves of the Swabian Jura’, Challenges and objectives in music archaeology. Studien zur Musikarchäologie VI, Orient-Archäologie 22, pp. 13–22.

Conde-Valverde, M. et al. (2021) ‘Neanderthals and homo sapiens had similar auditory and speech capacities’, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(5), pp. 609–615. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01391-6.

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Higham, T. et al. (2012) ‘Τesting models for the beginnings of the aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: The Radiocarbon Chronology of geißenklösterle’, Journal of Human Evolution, 62(6), pp. 664–676. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.03.003.

Killin, A. (2018). ‘The origins of music: Evidence, theory, and prospects’, Music & Science, 1. doi.org/10.1177/2059204317751971

Killin, A. (2023) ‘The deep history of musicality’, Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Archaeology, pp. 575–598. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192895950.013.18.

Kilmer, A. (1971) ‘Musical discovery in the age of enlightenment: History, theory and the Academy of Ancient Music’, The Advancement of Music in Enlightenment England, pp. 104–134. doi:10.1017/9781782044062.006.

Lameira, A.R. et al. (2013) ‘Orangutan whistling and implications for the emergence of an open-ended call repertoire: A replication and extension’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(3), pp. 2326–2335. doi:10.1121/1.4817929.

Mithen, S.J. (2011) The singing neanderthals: The origin of music, language, mind and body. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Morley, I. (2013). The prehistory of music: Human evolution, archaeology and the origins of musicality. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Perlman, M. and Clark, N. (2015) ‘Learned vocal and breathing behavior in an enculturated gorilla’, Animal Cognition, 18(5), pp. 1165–1179. doi:10.1007/s10071-015-0889-6.

Tuniz, C. et al. (2012) ‘Did neanderthals play music? x‐ray computed micro‐tomography of the Divje Babe “flute”’, Archaeometry, 54(3), pp. 581–590. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00630.x.

Villanea, F.A. and Schraiber, J.G. (2018) ‘Multiple episodes of interbreeding between Neanderthal and modern humans’, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(1), pp. 39–44. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0735-8.

Zhang, J. et al. (1999) ‘Oldest playable musical instruments found at Jiahu Early Neolithic site in China’, Nature, 401(6751), pp. 366–368. doi:10.1038/43865.

Archaeology, history, music, ancient history, video essay, Neanderthals, ancient humans

deciphering hieroglyphs, the rosetta stone

fig tree — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:54:20 +0000

https://sacred-texts.com/egy/trs/trs07.htm

today we talk about the rosetta stone the key to understanding the ancient world and egyptian history. ✌️

A Brief History of Atheism

fig tree — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:23:58 +0000

god ambivalence episode

sources cited 2day;

Bauer, S. Wise. 2007. The History Of The Ancient World. New York: W.W. Norton.

Berman, Harold J. 2005. "Faith And Law In A Multicultural World". Oxford University Press, 70.

Blainey, Geoffrey. 2016. A Short History Of Christianity. La Vergne: SPCK.

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Chen, Yong. 2012. Confucianism As Religion: 45-88

Ferguson, Everett. 1993. Backgrounds of Early Christianity (second ed.). Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. pp. 556–561.

Haught, John F. 2000. God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Kahn, Charles. 1997. "Greek Religion And Philosophy In The Sisyphus Fragment". Phronesis 42 (3): 247-262.

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Sherwin-White, A. N. 1964. "Why Were The Early Christians Persecuted?–An Amendment". Past And Present 27 (1): 23-27.

Smith, Hutson. 2009. The World's Religions (Plus). HarperOne.

Smith, Martin F., and W. H. D. Rouse. 1982. Lucretius: De Rerum Natura. 2nd ed. Harvard University Press.

Romito 2: Disability in Prehistory

fig tree — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:00:27 +0000

today we talk about some people from the past and how they were loved. im asking for all of you to keep loving and caring for people. please. https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general

sources cited in this video
Cassidy, L.M. et al. (2020) ‘A dynastic elite in monumental neolithic society’, Nature, 582(7812), pp. 384–388. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2378-6.

Craig, O.E. et al. (2010) ‘Stable isotope analysis of Late Upper Palaeolithic human and faunal remains from Grotta del Romito (Cosenza), Italy’, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(10), pp. 2504–2512. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.05.010.

Crubézy, E. and Trinkaus, E. (1992) ‘Shanidar 1: A case of hyperostotic disease (dish) in the middle paleolithic’, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 89(4), pp. 411–420. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330890402.

Dickel, D.N. and Doran, G.H. (1989) ‘Severe neural tube defect syndrome from the early archaic of Florida’, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 80(3), pp. 325–334. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330800306.

Frayer, D.W., Macchiarelli, R. and Mussi, M. (1988) ‘A case of chondrodystrophic dwarfism in the Italian late Upper Paleolithic’, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 75(4), pp. 549–565. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330750412.

Oxenham, M.F. et al. (2009) ‘Paralysis and severe disability requiring intensive care in Neolithic Asia’, Anthropological Science, 117(2), pp. 107–112. doi:10.1537/ase.081114.

Sawada, J., Thuy, N.K. and Tuan, N.A. (2011) ‘Faunal remains at Man Bac’, Man Bac (Terra Australis 33): The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam. doi:10.22459/ta33.05.2011.09.

Tilley, L. (2015) ‘Accommodating difference in the prehistoric past: Revisiting the case of Romito 2 from a bioarchaeology of Care Perspective’, International Journal of Paleopathology, 8, pp. 64–74. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2014.10.003.

Tilley, L. and Oxenham, M.F. (2011) ‘Survival against the odds: Modeling the social implications of care provision to seriously disabled individuals’, International Journal of Paleopathology, 1(1), pp. 35–42. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2011.02.003.

ranking the archaeological accuracy of indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark

fig tree — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:15:04 +0000

lets do a silly one

Was Herodotus right about the Scythians? || the use of human skin in ancient eurasia

fig tree — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:15:00 +0000

metal

bog bodies & the archaeology of iron age ireland

fig tree — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:05:34 +0000

today i ignore the fact that ive been MIA for months and we talk about the wonderful natural phenomena of bog bodies - the pearls of northern european archaeology

the archaeological merit of indiana jones and the dial of destiny

fig tree — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:54:18 +0000

SPOILERS FOR INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY ⚠️⚠️⚠️
this is the article i was talking about:
https://doi.org/10.2972/hesperia.86.1.0129

Manufactured Minoans: the archaeological excavations of Arthur Evans

fig tree — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:11:22 +0000

this is a safe space for arthur evans hate

prehistoric burial rituals | the story of Mtoto

fig tree — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:56:53 +0000

everyone say hi Mtoto

the eleusinian mysteries || what happened inside the temple??

fig tree — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 13:05:21 +0000

just found this article with the absolute most wonderful visual reconstructions of the telesterion 4 ur viewing pleasure:
https://www.anasynthesis.co.uk/index.php/articles/eleusis-the-telesterion

also look at this if u want more photos of me freaking out at ancient sites:
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A Queer History || greek mythology and the gays

fig tree — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:15:01 +0000

hope u enjoy!!

this one goes out to jordan peterson

the beginning of civilisation & the worlds first empire || mesopotamia’s fertile crescent

fig tree — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:29:04 +0000

today i talk about how humans developed society aka the biggest mistake eva

kids, if you noticed to audio was a lil off, no you didnt

the phoenicians: a culture lost to time and the archeological record

fig tree — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:09:18 +0000

i love these guys.

0:00 intro
0:40 who??
2:22 what??
4:16 the goods
6:28 relationship with greece
7:28 the evolution of language
9:16 carthage
10:22 the end of an era
14:06 bye

neanderthals were smarter than we think || a prehistoric family and how they went extinct

fig tree — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 23:00:27 +0000

i talk about a recent article published which gives us a look at a possible neanderthal family living all 2gether. also other stuff.

a shallow dive into ancient egyptian religion

fig tree — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 08:58:16 +0000

amateur archeologist discusses worlds most complex historical religion in under 30 minutes.

intro 0:00
religion 0:46
temples 6:49
funerary texts 8:23
the book of the ded 13:25
tombs 16:50
the duat and the afterlife 18:35
the sekhet aaru 21:55

tanagra figurines: class and femininity in ancient greece

fig tree — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:31:23 +0000

i did in fact decide to post it to the internet.
this is me talking about 1 of of favourite archaeological artefacts - the ancient greek tanagra figure. shes a bombshell. hope u like.
bye.