An Egyptian King List: From the First Time to Cleopatra
An Egyptian king list from the divine dynasties through Menes to Cleopatra VII, with Manetho's and Turin's pre-Menic reign totals dated under stated assumptions.
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The Neolithic Ankh of Russia’s White Sea
A Neolithic White Sea petroglyph looks uncannily like an Egyptian ankh, and the archaeologist who published it in 1938 noticed the resemblance.
The Hands That Remember: Hiva Oa and Rapa Nui
Hiva Oa's tiki and Rapa Nui's moai share a striking hand gesture—and a Polynesian history illuminated by oral tradition, archaeology, and DNA.
The Animals That Made America: Five Million Years of Migration
Old and New World animal migrations brought mammoths, bison, elk, birds, and parasites to the Americas in separate waves over five million years.
Pre-sapient humans in America
Pre-sapient humans in America: the case for sparse, technologically simple hominin arrivals long before Clovis and the faint traces they might have left.
Contra d’Huy on the African Root of World Mythology
A global myth is not an African fossil. Why d’Huy’s roots beg the question, and Ice Age Europe offers a better home for the bullroarer complex.
Arowanas Are Cousins, 50 Million Years Apart
The Amazon and Australian arowanas split about 50 million years ago across a forested Antarctica. The Asian arowana is the harder puzzle.
Where do myth trees begin?
An interactive myth lab. Change the model, move the root, and explore what comparative mythology can—and cannot—tell us about origins.
Out of Africa, by Assumption
How Witzel, Berezkin, Le Quellec, and d’Huy turn human migrations into myth origins—and why a global story needs its own historical evidence.
Personality’s Genetic Signal Points to the Brain
AlphaGenome connects all ten leading GFP associations to neural RNA or splicing, with BMAL1 linking the strongest region to learning and memory.
Eve and the Ingressed Mind
Cutler’s EToC and Michael Levin’s theory of minds illuminate the human transition in the Fall, emergence, and ancestral transformation.
African Pearl Millet Was Not an Independent Invention
Munson named the pearl millet diffusion route in 1976. The oldest domesticated grain turned up there in 2011, weakening the independent-invention case.
The Seam in Heaven
A Nüwa–Fuxi novella about a clay-made woman, a mud-splashed fisherman, and the first human choice to leave heaven imperfect.
The Olmec Mysteries and the Serpent Before Quetzalcoatl
What remains mysterious about the Olmecs, and why their bird-serpent is probably an ancestor of the later Quetzalcoatl tradition.
Kiln Mother Goes East
Venus figurines and East Asian pottery share a deeper history: clay, fire, and the transmission of a craft that learned to make bodies before bowls.
The Same Hand
A literary science-fiction novella about a forensic handwriting machine, a forger with a tremor, and the first hand that ever drew itself.
The Inside of the Glove
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that teaches people to unlearn, and the human discovery it cannot put down.
Africa’s Inherited Worlds
The Hamitic hypothesis as cultural diffusion: how imported livelihoods, scriptures, and learned traditions became foundations of African cultures.
A Sufficient Explanation
An original science-fiction novella about the Eve Theory of Consciousness, the hunger for absolution, and a machine built to explain us.
The Things That Can Be Given Away
An intelligence settling a dead woman's estate discovers that a self may be something one person teaches another to inherit.