An Archaeologist with a difference and a Voice for the Past in this age
Memoir of Madness-The Vanished, The Vanquished, and the Vanguard” EXCERPT VI. THE INFERNO CANNOT RECOGNIZE METhe transition into the new millennium was never truly about a digital clock resetting itself at midnight. Humanity misunderstood the threshold because humanity has always mistaken symptoms for causes, shadows for structures, and consequences for origins. The panic surrounding Y2K …
Dr. Olanrewaju Lasisi of the University of Virginia has won the 2023 SAF Field Discovery Award, presented by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum. His project, "Landscapes of Power: Architecture, Ritual, and Astronomy in the Making of the Yoruba World," investigates the link between social structure, rituals, and astronomy in the ancient Yoruba civilization. With a unique approach combining archaeology with ethnography, and archaeoastronomy, Dr. Lasisi has offered invaluable insights about Ijebu-Yoruba Kingdom's power dynamics, urbanism, and cosmology.
The Architecture of the Secret Humanity’s migration into the year 2000 was driven by a desperate, unspoken wish. The creation of the World Wide Web and the frenzied adoption of the digital realm were never merely engineering marvels; they were acts of global evacuation. Humanity was attempting to let go of its baggage. The old …
Look at your Bible. Open it to Genesis 1:1. Do not skim it. Actually look at it, because a single word is enough to fracture an entire world. For those who treat language as the literal fabric of reality, a word is not small. It is structural. It defines the shape of understanding itself. Last …
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The Atlantic did not tame them; the Pacific bowed to them. https://videopress.com/v/LIpbCLMt?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true They were not mere sailors; they were architects of the horizon—Adígún, Òsìfèkúndé, and Àkànmú. Where kings feared to look, they steered without hesitation, carrying the world’s heaviest burdens: classified truths, royal bloodlines, and the silent weight of empires. To the maritime world, they …
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