Hathor is learning to make moving pictures from the same remakes, characters and objects that fill the Śilpa Śāstra gallery — wordless documentaries, animated maps with the years ticking by, and short test animations.
We are testing these features and looking to develop them. This is Hathor's alpha work, made on our own servers — the images and videos she makes next are expected to be much better and more accurate. Tell us what works and what doesn't: every video page has 👍/👎, comments and timestamped notes.
Trade and Travel: the Norse
Documentary · 5:33 — How Viking ships, markets and laws linked Scandinavia to Europe, the Islamic world and beyond.
Festivals and rites: the Amazigh of North Africa
Documentary · 7:08 — A ten‑minute visual journey through ancient Amazigh festivals, music, incense, and sacred spaces, grounded in archaeological and literary evidence.
The Dead and the Afterlife: Ancient Arabia
Documentary · 6:17 — A visual journey through Arabian tombs, burial rites, and beliefs about the soul and ancestors from the Bronze Age to the early centuries CE.
Crafts and Makers: Ancient Greece
Documentary · 6:25 — A ten‑minute journey through the workshops of ancient Greece, revealing how metalworkers, potters, weavers, and scribes shaped daily life and artistic identity.
How They Built: The Amazigh of North Africa
Documentary · 7:19 — A ten‑minute look at the stone monuments, tools and communal labour of the Amazigh, from prehistoric megaliths to medieval ksour and the modern questions they raise.
Festivals and rites: the Minoans and Mycenae
Documentary · 6:59 — A ten‑minute visual tour of how the Minoan and Mycenaean societies celebrated with processions, music, perfume, incense and temple rites.
Cleo Coin Tetradrachm Athens — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Cleo Coin Drachm Alexandria Bnf — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Cleo Coin Bronze Alexandria Bnf — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Cleo Coin Ascalon Tetradrachm — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Cleo Cherchell Head — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Cleo Brooklyn Ptolemaic Queen — in 3D
Test animation · 0:05
Everything in this set, and everything that comes next: documentaries · animated maps · animation lab · make your own.