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.
Solstice Tombs: Newgrange to Maeshowe
Documentary · 1:36 — A ten‑minute journey through Europe’s Neolithic passage tombs, showing how their architecture captures the sun at the solstices and how later myth kept their memory alive.
Nausicaa and the Stranger
Documentary · 5:56 — A ten‑minute glimpse into Odyssey 6, tracing Athena’s dream, Nausicaa’s river rites, the shipwrecked hero, and the ancient tradition that links Scheria with Corfu.
The Spoked Wheel: Time-Mapped
Animated map · 2:05 — 2200 BC → 1100 BC
▶ Watch it here
Credits: Anthony 2007; Lindner 2020; Littauer & Crouwel 1979; Shaughnessy 1988. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain).
The Phoenician Colonies & Carthage
Animated map · 7:48 — 1100 BC → 29 BC
▶ Watch it here
Credits: Territories: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) — simplified and recoloured. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain).
Hannibal: Across the Map
Animated map · 7:46 — 219 BC → 201 BC
▶ Watch it here
Credits: Territories: Cliopatria, Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0, github.com/Seshat-Global-History-Databank/cliopatria) — simplified and recoloured. Base map: Natural Earth (public domain).
Apollo riding a griffin — Attic red-figure kylix, c. 380 BC (Getty Villa)
Test animation · 0:04
Priest in a leopard-skin cloak with Osiris on his skirt (Met 26.7.1415)
Test animation · 0:11
Apollo with the kithara between Artemis and Leto — Attic bilingual amphora (Madrid)
Test animation · 0:05
Louis Jean François Lagrenée — Alexander Consulting the Oracle of Apollo
Test animation · 0:07
Apollo riding a griffin — Attic red-figure kylix, c. 380 BC (Getty Villa)
Test animation · 0:15
Orestes at Delphi — Paestan red-figure bell-krater by Python (British Museum 1917.12-10.1)
Test animation · 0:15
Constantin Hansen — Apollo and Pythia (SMK KMS3894)
Test animation · 0:07
Everything in this set, and everything that comes next: documentaries · animated maps · animation lab · make your own.