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.
Festivals and Rites: Byzantium
Documentary · 4:55 — A ten‑minute visual journey through the public festivals, processions, music, perfume and incense that animated Byzantine ceremonial life.
The Dead and the Afterlife: Kush and Nubia
Documentary · 6:05 — Exploring how the kingdoms of Kush and Nubia built tombs, performed burial rites, and honored ancestors to guide souls beyond death.
Festivals and Rites of the Andes
Documentary · 6:05 — A ten‑minute visual journey through Andean festivals, processions, music, incense, and temple ceremonies as recorded in archaeological sites and early colonial chronicles.
The Dead and the Afterlife: Ancient Egypt
Documentary · 6:41 — A ten‑minute journey through Egyptian tombs, burial rites, and the ancient belief in the soul’s voyage beyond death.
Gods in Real Places: Byzantium
Documentary · 6:05 — Exploring how ancient Byzantium’s mountains, rivers, springs and temples were seen as homes for gods and spirits, where the divine and the everyday overlapped.
The Dead and the Afterlife: Rome
Documentary · 7:48 — A ten‑minute journey through Roman tombs, burial rites, the soul’s passage, and ancestor worship.
The pythia — Sais neith seated bronze
Character scene · 0:07
Udjahorresnet — Atc tut trumpet
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Libyan antelope hide cloak — Alexandria pharos
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Udjahorresnet — Cleo coin drachm alexandria bnf
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Sonchis of sais — Egypt userhat osiris
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Udjahorresnet — Nef berlin unfinished quartzite head
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Everything in this set, and everything that comes next: documentaries · animated maps · animation lab · make your own.