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.
Saïs and the Priests of Neith
Documentary · 6:49 — A ten‑minute journey through Saïs, its temple of Neith, the Saite dynasty, and the Greek legends that linked Egypt and Greece.
The Four Peoples of the Egyptian World
Documentary · 2:14 — How the Egyptians painted the peoples of their world — Egyptians, Nubians, Libyans and Asiatics — and the envoys who came bearing gifts.
The Perfumed Banquet
Documentary · 4:21 — Lotus, kyphi and perfumed wax — the scents of Egyptian feasts and temples, as the tomb paintings show them.
Faces of Roman Egypt: the Fayum Portraits
Documentary · 9:25 — Painted faces laid over mummies in Roman Egypt — real people, looking back at us across two thousand years.
Aegeus consulting the Pythia (as Themis) — Kodros Painter kylix, Berlin F2538
Test animation · 0:04
Robert Smirke — The Castalian Spring (Yale Center for British Art B1977.14.561)
Test animation · 0:04
Louis Jean François Lagrenée — Alexander Consulting the Oracle of Apollo
Test animation · 0:08
Mummy portrait of a woman, Athens EAM 1628
Test animation · 0:06
Peseshet
Test animation · 0:06
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, Athena between them — Attic black-figure neck amphora
Test animation · 0:12
The pythia
Test animation · 0:06
Athena Promachos — Kleophrades Painter, Panathenaic amphora (ABV 404 7)
Test animation · 0:08
Everything in this set, and everything that comes next: documentaries · animated maps · animation lab · make your own.