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A single capstone on a Dutch hunebed can weigh as much as twenty tonnes. The people who lifted it had no machines, no metal tools and no wheels. So how on earth did they do it? For centuries the answer seemed so…
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There is a spot on the south slope of the Acropolis, still open to visitors today, where you would once have seen nothing at all. Just a long, curving wall of pale stone. No columns, no sculpture, not a single doorway.…
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Beneath the most sacred room Solomon ever built lies a single piece of bare rock. It has sat at the centre of this hill for thousands of years, and across roughly three thousand of them, tradition holds that four…
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Imagine standing in Drenthe five thousand years ago. Around you lies not empty heath but fields of ripening wheat, timber farmhouses, smoke rising from cooking fires, and children minding the goats. These were the…
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A while ago we shared our collaboration between Hunebedcentrum and TimeLens. Now the first scene has fully come to life. To see the full scene, you will need to visit the museum next year, but we happily share a sneak…
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How can anyone know what a city looked like four hundred years ago, when almost every building is gone? For New Amsterdam, the answer is a single remarkable document: a map called the Castello Plan, drawn in 1660. It is…
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At the entrance to Solomon's Temple stood two enormous bronze pillars, each around nine and a half metres tall, crowned with ornamented capitals rising several metres more. They are named, individually, in the old…
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Almost everyone in the world will know Wall Street in NYC, but why does this famous street have this name? Why is Wall Street called Wall Street? This question is rather easy to answer if you imagine standing at the…
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In a colony where a single misunderstanding could tip trade into war, one of the most important people in New Amsterdam was a woman who could speak to both sides. Her name was Sara Roelofs, and from a house near the…
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Imagine standing inside Solomon's Temple, the First Temple of Jerusalem, nearly three thousand years ago. Gold covers the walls. The menorah burns, the table of the showbread stands ready, and the golden altar of…
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Solomon's Temple was not one room. It was a sequence, ring within ring, each one closer to the sacred than the last, and closed to almost everyone before the very end. Standing at its outer edge, an ordinary person in…
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Imagine standing in the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens, around 320 BCE. The stone seats climb the south slope of the Acropolis, packed with spectators. It is a festival of Dionysos, and on the stage below, one of the…
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