(All links to resources validated April 8, 2018).
The War on Consciousness - TED Talk by Graham Hancock in 2013 in London (Whitechapel).
The War on Consciousness - TED Talk by Graham Hancock in 2013 in London (Whitechapel).
Rewriting
Stonehenge's history (UCL) Professor Mike Parker Pearson (UCL Archaeology) re-evaluates
the timeline of Stonehenge's construction and sheds light on how it was used.
The first Stonehenge began life as a cemetery with the original stone circle
built 500 years before the version that we know today.
Chronicle | Cracking the Stone Age
Code CHANNEL | BBC 2 FIRST BROADCAST | 31 October 1970 DURATION | 47
minutes 52 seconds
Professor Alexander Thom puts forward his theory that
Stonehenge and other megalithic sites were used to record time and predict
solar and lunar eclipses. Magnus Magnusson looks at Thom's evidence and hears
what different archaeologists think of the suggestion that Stone Age Britons
could make such elaborate calculations. If Thom's theory is correct, previous
archaeological certainties about the knowledge and ability of people in the
Stone Age would be overturned.
Alexander Thom's book 'Megalithic Sites in Britain',
published in 1967, caused huge controversy within academic archaeology. Thom's
premise that Stone Age culture used complex mathematics and applied this to
constructing monuments undermined the progressional idea of culture as
continually advancing from savagery to civilisation. Glyn Daniel commissioned
the eminent astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle to consider Thom's evidence for
'Archaeology' magazine. Hoyle found that Thom's theories were essentially
accurate.
"Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to
be a woman of power in ancient Egypt. Through a wealth of spectacular
buildings, personal artefacts and amazing tombs, Joann brings to life four of
ancient Egypt's most powerful female rulers and discovers the remarkable
influence wielded by women, whose power and freedom was unique in the ancient
world.
Throughout Egypt's history, women held the title of pharaoh
no fewer than 15 times, and many other women played key roles in running the
state and shaping every aspect of life. Joann Fletcher puts these influential
women back at the heart of our understanding, revealing the other half of
ancient Egypt."
A two-day symposium (April 23-24,2015) Featuring twelve lectures that explore the topography of Ottoman Athens in conjunction with the exhibition "Ottoman Athens, 1458-1833". Organised by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Secrets of the Aegean: Apocalypse. BBC Documentary on the Late Bronze Age Collapse of civilization. The Influence of Climatic Change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the subsequent Dark Ages recorded by Homer.
Two History Channel Documentaries: The Military History of
Ancient Assyria, and The Military History of Ancient Macedonia. The documentary
on Assyria makes good use of the Assyrian Palace reliefs. By the eighth century
BC, the Assyrians had created the largest empire to date - stretching from the
Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, and encompassing the whole of the Middle
East.
Philip of Macedonia transformed a largely peasant society
into one of the most effective and successful armies of antiquity.
Ancient Assyrians starts at 00:10 Assyria was a
major Semitic kingdom or empire of the Ancient Near East, existing in various
forms during a period of approximately nineteen centuries from circa 2500 BC to
605 BC, spanning the Early Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age.
Ancient Macedonians starts at 23:38 The
Macedonians were an ancient tribe from the northeastern part of the Greek
peninsula, in the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios.
Hartmut Kühne, University Professor at the Institut für
Vorderasiatische Archäologie, presents "The Collapse of the Assyrian
Empire and the Evidence of Dur-Katlimmu" at the University of Chicago.
Israel, Aram and Assyria:
Between Bible and Archaeology [The Fifteenth World Congress Of Jewish
Studies Jerusalem, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3.8.2009]
Chairperson: Mordechai Cogan
Tallay Ornan (E) Northern Inspiration: Aramean and
Neo-Hittite Finds in Ninth/Eighth Century BCE Israel Aren Maeir (E) Hazael in
Southern Israel: The Campaign to Philistia and the Conquest of Philistine Gath
Amihai Mazar (E) Israel, the Arameans and Assyria: A View from Tel Beth-Shean
and Tel Rehov Doron Ben Ami and Nili Wazana (E) Enemy at the Gates: The
Phenomenon of Fortifications in Israel and Judea Re-examined
"We have known of the existence of the Gospel of Thomas
from ancient writers, but it was only after the discovery of the Nag Hammadi
Codices that the actual text became available. The Gospel of Thomas is
basically a collection of sayings, or logia, that sometimes seem similar,
perhaps more primitive than sayings found in the canonical Gospels. Sometimes,
however, the sayings seem better explained as reflecting a "Gnostic"
understanding of the world. This involves a rejection of the material world and
a desire for gnosis, a secret knowledge, in order to escape the world and return
to the divine being."
The lecture is in three parts -
The lecture is in three parts -
00:00 -
Chapter 1. The Nag Hammadi Codices and Thomasine Literature
10:35 -
Chapter 2. The Sayings of the Gospel of Thomas
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale
Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses.
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
Published on 21 Sep 2008. Introduction to Political
Philosophy (PLSC 114) Yale. Steven B. Smith. Recorded, Fall, 2006. Lecture
4 introduces Plato's Republic and its many meanings in the context of moral
psychology, justice, the power of poetry and myth, and metaphysics. The
Republic is also discussed as a utopia, presenting an extreme vision of a
polis--Kallipolis--Plato's ideal city. 00:00 - Chapter
1. Introduction 03:04
- Chapter 2. What Is Plato's "Republic" About? 17:38 -
Chapter 3. I Went Down to the Piraeus 22:05 -
Chapter 4. The Seventh Letter 30:00 -
Chapter 5. Analyzing the Beginning of "Republic" and the Hierarchy of
Characters 38:13
- Chapter 6. Cephalus
Bitter
Lake (a film by Adam Curtis, available on the BBC iPlayer in the UK.
Elsewhere too, if you have VPN). The BBC's description of this interesting film (almost
everything by Adam Curtis is worth watching) is as follows:
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories
that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories
and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and
disorientated. Bitter Lake is a new, adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis
that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so
simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes
all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country
at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has
confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot
understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over
the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to
understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has
played in this.
But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the
unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and
used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more
emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint
to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power
today.
Unlike most modern film-makers Curtis is prepared to take
his time unfolding his argument, often involving unexpected and multi-layered
narrative. Who would have thought Tarkovski's Solaris would be referenced in
connection with the Russian experience of Afghanistan?
The film is 138 minutes long, but it is comfortable to watch in two halves. As always, his use of music and sound is excellent. Recommended.
This brief was written and delivered by Maj. Stephen
Coughlin Published on 13 Jul 2012.
Alan Watts -The Architecture Of Insecurity (Lecture,
n.d. or location, 58m)
Alan Watts - Reality & Illusion... (Lecture,
n.d. or location. 153m)
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British-born
philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser
of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
George Berkeley Dialogues between Hylas and
Philonous The philosopher George Berkeley in nine minutes. Based on
Berkeley's "Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous." Philonous
explains to Hylas why matter doesn't exist. Hylas becomes a skeptic and then an
immaterialist.
BBC Chronicle series
A waddle along the Ridgeway discovers how much ground a
goose can cover.
The
Fall of Constantinople BROADCAST 1967 33 MINUTES John Julius Norwich brings
the Byzantine Empire alive for a fleeting moment in Istanbul.
Silbury Dig: The Heart
of the Mound BROADCAST 1968 39 MINUTES Television and archaeology unite to
discover Bronze Age Britain.
The
Lost World of the Maya BROADCAST 1972 60 MINUTES Journey into the heart of
the rainforest in search of Mayan civilisation and mythology.
The Key to the Land of
Silence BROADCAST 1977 50 MINUTES How the Rosetta Stone translated ancient
Egypt to the modern world.
Tomb of the Lost King
BROADCAST 1979 48 MINUTES Spectacular archaeological discoveries of ancient
tombs in northern Greece.
Lost Kings of the
Desert BROADCAST 1979 49 MINUTES An exploration of a lost city in the
middle of the desert in Iraq.
Lost City of the Incas
BROADCAST 1984 59 MINUTES Special 'Chronicle' expedition across the Andes and
into the Peruvian jungle.
Sutton
Hoo BROADCAST 1989 48 MINUTES Excavations at Sutton Hoo cast new light on
Anglo-Saxon culture.
The
Last Days of Minos BROADCAST 1967 49 MINUTES Myth and history merge in this
account of archaeological discovery on Crete and Santorini.
Aphrodite's
Other Island BROADCAST 1978 49 MINUTES Follow the results of an excavation
at the Bronze Age site of Phylakopi.
Digging
for Slaves BROADCAST 1989 49 MINUTES Archaeology unearths the past
histories of African slaves in America.
CHRONICLE Cracking the Stone Age
Code BROADCAST 1970 48 MINUTES What was Stonehenge for? One man thinks he
knows.
The
Great Iron Ship BROADCAST 1970 50 MINUTES Brunel's huge iron ship, SS Great
Britain, returns to Bristol.
Archive Archaeology at the BBC, via Iplayer
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