THUBAN / THE COLLECTIONS
History & Civilizations
Historical evidence, empires, societies and the ancient world.
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The Rosetta Stone: How Writing Became Readable Again
A damaged decree helped recover a writing system. Its importance lies in comparison, patient inference and a distinction often missed: three scripts are not three languages.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Weighing the Heart
Ancient Egyptian funerary texts present one of history’s most memorable moral images: a heart weighed against the measure of truth and justice.
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Jachin and Boaz: The Two Pillars and Their Symbolism
Two named bronze pillars appear in the biblical description of Solomon’s temple. Their later symbolic life reaches far beyond the ancient text, including architecture and Freemasonry.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Was Actually Found?
Thousands of ancient manuscript fragments transformed the study of Judaism and the history of biblical texts. Their significance lies in evidence we can examine, not in invented secrets.
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Heraclitus: Change, Fire and the River of Reality
Heraclitus became the philosopher of change, but the popular slogan ‘everything flows’ hides a subtler puzzle about order, tension and enduring patterns.
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Socrates: The Philosopher Who Asked Better Questions
Socrates left no book. Yet a life built around conversation became one of philosophy’s defining examples. What can we actually know about him—and what does it mean to examine a…
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Pythagoras: The Mathematician We Think We Know
The name Pythagoras evokes a theorem. The historical person behind it, however, is far harder to reconstruct.
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Thuban Daily — 10 October 2026 | The World, Examined
An extended edition with eleven sourced news stories and three editorial reflections: geopolitics, AI, ancient worlds, nature, consciousness and the philosophy of life.
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Thuban: The Star That Once Marked the North
The name behind Thuban is written in the sky: a lesson in how even our most dependable directions change across deep time.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Flood, a Friend and the Fear of Death
Long before the modern novel, Mesopotamian storytellers explored grief, kingship, mortality and the limits of human power.