Wonderscape
Ancient Greek Scholars: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
This video explores the impact of ancient Greek philosophers, including Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. It covers Socrates' method of questioning, Plato's writings on justice and government, and Aristotle's belief in observation as the...
NativLang
Ancient Greek proverbs, written & spoken - 3 quotes from Delphi (with audio)
μηδὲν ἄγαν. Nothing in excess. (Or, perhaps, "Moderation in all things.") γνῶθι σεαυτόν. Know yourself. ("Know thyself.") ἐγγύα πάρα δ' ἄτη. A pledge is near to ruin. ("Make a pledge, and mischief is nigh.") These three Greek sayings...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 2: Ancient Lowercase, or Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 2 of this series teaches you to write the minuscule (lowercase) letter variants. This Greek script became more and more common in later ancient times and the middle ages. Printed Ancient...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 1: Ancient Uppercase, or Majuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 1 of this series teaches you to write the majuscule (uppercase) variants, the oldest forms of the Greek letters. This Greek script was used on ancient monuments and in older texts. Visit my...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 3: Uncials)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 3 of this series teaches you to write the Uncial variants of uppercase Greek letters. Scribes began to use these letter forms early in the Christian era, and the script is often associated...
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 4: Byzantine Minuscule)
How to write the Ancient Greek alphabet. Part 4 of this series teaches you to write in the Byzantine minuscule hand. This version of lowercase Greek handwriting became increasingly prominent in the Middle Ages. Stylized forms emerged...
TED Talks
William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the...
SciShow
These Scrolls Got Destroyed by a Volcano, But It’s Fine
The eruption of Mt Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and one ancient library was burned to a crisp. However, scientists are now using machine learning and AI to decipher the writing on them and recover lost works of...
NativLang
Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated...
NativLang
Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...
Curated Video
Writing Systems of the World | Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries
Writing Systems of the World | Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries & Logosyllabaries
NativLang
Writing the Greek Alphabet (Part 5: Modern Greek)
Learn how to write the Greek alphabet. Part 5 of this series teaches you to write and pronounce all 24 Greek letters, both uppercase and lowercase. Visit my Greek language page for more information:...
NativLang
Byzantine Greek minuscule script - the alphabet & varied letter forms
Learn to write the cursive minuscule hand used for Medieval Greek. Letters of the alphabet appear in various forms. Earliest forms (generally 800-1200) appear on the left, later forms (roughly 1600-1800) on the right. See my "Learn to...
Curated Video
Macedonia, Stobi ancient city
The city was first mentioned in writing by the historian Livy, in connection with a victory of Philip V of Macedon over the Dardani in 197 BC. In 168 BC, the Romans defeated Perseus and Macedonia was divided into four nominally...
The EcoHero Show
Two Wolves
Environmental Rap Superhero Mr. Eco travels to Taiwan to uncover the mental battle all humans face between good and bad wolves.
Curated Video
Understanding James Joyce's Ulysses
After leaving Dublin at age 22, James Joyce's life became a continuous journey of physical and intellectual exploration, which is reflected in his masterwork "Ulysses," inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The novel, which Joyce spent seven...
NativLang
CAPS Unlock - the history behind uppercase & lowercase letters
The ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it...
History Hit
How Christianity Shapes Our Morality: The purpose behind the book
Why did the author want to write this book and what did he want to say in it? How Christianity Shapes Our Morality, Part 1
Curated Video
Curators on Camera: A 2,000-year-old homework book
'My children, in school, are still copying text and samples, exactly what happened about 2,000 years ago in Egypt' Curator Peter Toth shows us one school-child’s valiant efforts at handwriting in ancient Greek. Do you remember having to...
Curated Video
Systematizing Knowledge
Historian Maria Mavroudi (UC Berkeley) reveals how different the ancient attitudes towards scientific development and attribution were to those of today.
AllTime 10s
10 Darkest Inventions Of The 21st Century
Whilst the thinking behind these inventions may have been positive, these certainly turned out to have some pretty dark consequences.
TED Talks
TED: The mathematics of war | Sean Gourley
By analyzing raw data on violent incidents in the Iraq war and others, Sean Gourley and his team claim to have found a surprisingly strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of attacks.
TLDR News
The Northern Ireland Protocol Fight Explained - TLDR News
This week the UK published a paper that outlined how they want to change the Northern Ireland Protocol, an element of the Brexit Deal they signed only 18 months ago. So in this video we explain what the UK want to change about Northern...
Mazz Media
What are Hieroglyphics?
This live-action video program is about the word Hieroglyphics. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Hieroglyphics through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...