Test render of a 3d model of a late Medieval English parish church. The view is west end of the nave looking east. In the center is the font with ornate gothic canopy. The scene has strong sunlight coming from the right, raking across the architectural details. There is no roof (only roof trusses) over the south aisle of the church.

I temporarily took the roof off of the south aisle (but left the trusses in place - also, if you look closely, textures are starting to appear) and I was just really struck by the quality of light and shadow playing across the font cover. Thought I'd share. #medievalsky #archviz

We could do a "code archaeology" comparing how these online resources have been edited and changed, and ensure a record is kept of this too

Bodies in buildings: Human remains and the life histories of houses at Neolithic Çatalhöyük At Neolithic Çatalhöyük (7100–6000 cal BCE), where evidence of monumental architecture and large communal spaces and structures is lacking, the house …

My paper on the entangled relationship between architecture and burial practices at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye is finally out! (open access)🏺
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

The Video Game History Foundation Library is now in early access. For free. For everyone. Wherever you are.

Read more: gamehistory.org/vghf-library...

Surprising Pottery from the Ancient World YouTube video by Dr. Smiti Nathan

🏺 If you're curious to see some examples of potentially unexpected pottery finds from the ancient world, check out our latest archaeology video 🏺
youtu.be/tknGiqtlB_I

Untextured test render of a 3d model of the interior of a late fifteenth century English parish church.

More progress on the parish church model. I think it was the right call to extend it one more bay. Now to start on textures...

Do archaeological visualizations of places in the past count as #SciArt ?

The Video Game History Foundation makes its digital library available to the public next week | VGC The library will include promotional artwork and more than 1500 out-of-print magazines…

The Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social will open its digital library system to the public next week.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...

a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engraving

a black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results

On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

A carving of a man being burned at the stake with the caption "lord open the king of England's eyes"

I will note that pulpit from which the Bishop gave her sermon is not only the one from which Martin Luther King Jr gave his last sermon on the Sunday before he was killed, it also contains a panel of a man being martyred, paired with an exhortation for God to open the eyes of a tyrannical leader.

One thing before tomorrow:

Use your local libraries.

Get your card.

Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks.

Recommend titles for purchase (usually online).

Attend promoted activities.

Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires.

Tell your kids that libraries are good.

They are.

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Featured image for Technically Art Issue 141

Also fun fact:

There's a new Technically Art issue out today! ✨

There's so much cool, insightful, and juicy shader-y, tech-artsy, and VFX-y stuff in there, you definitely don't want to miss it! 👀

Check it out here:

halisavakis.com/technically-...

#gamedev #indiedev #vfx

More job opportunities with ADS and HSDS - now two technical roles.

Medieval Treasures of Lithuania Unearthed in Vilnius Cathedral - Medievalists.net A cache of medieval royal regalia, hidden for over 80 years, has been uncovered in Vilnius Cathedral, revealing the splendour of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Hidden medieval regalia rediscovered in Vilnius Cathedral, Lithuania. www.medievalists.net/2025/01/medi...

Egyptian Blue Bes ceramic Statue from the British museum shop, kind of looks like a tiny suspicious bear? He's adorable

A middle Egyptian turquoise hippo from the met. He looks despondent and adorable. He has line art of reeds painted on his back and face.

A ceramic baby rattle from the met shaped like a pig. However it doesn't look much like a pig, it's giving creature saying ooooooo. It's adorable.

Little red earthenware bowl from the met. It has two little humanoid feet on the bottom and looks like he's standing shyly. Adorable.

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

New Yorker cartoon: a man in Graeco-Roman draped clothing warning a child who is reaching up to an urn on a table: “careful—that’s going to be in a museum one day”

before artifacts are artifacts

#gamingthepast & #DigitalHistory folk. If this winter it'd be helpful for me to give a 30/45 min remote talk to your class on video games as a historical medium / games as historical problem spaces, I'm super happy to do that. It's quite easy for me, I enjoy it, & I think it helps. (pls amplify) 🗃️

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Historian Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, United States

Firaxis—the studio behind the Civilization series—is hiring a historian. An *actual* historian.

And note, when they ask for "4+ years as a Writer, Narrative Designer, or other position with commensurate duties," that includes teaching, writing, and research—i.e. your Ph.D. in History.

Century-Scale Storage If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

"The goal of century-scale storage must be to preserve that which we have created so that...those we will never meet, may experience their intricacies & ecstasies, their capacities for enlightenment." Great deep piece on principles&practice of archiving at scale.

lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scal...

Job Details

Vacancy for a key colleague: Associate Professor in Reformation and Early Modern Christianities in the Faculty of Theology & Religion, and Tutorial Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford. Deadline 4 Feb, interviews 4 March. FT/TT.

Great thread

@bsky.app

Exciting position at Cambridge - deadline 30th January 2025
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49315/

This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It's Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years The interactive tool enables users to home in on a specific location and visualize how it has evolved between the Cryogenian period and the present

This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Exactly

That's a great idea! Many public libraries offer digital access to magazines through various services they subscribe to on behalf of their patrons - it might be close to what you're talking about here!

New issue of @romchip.bsky.social is now live, covering an impressively broad range of topics including NSFW Sims mods, the history of Atari game controllers, an excavation of "Computer Theater" and a reading of "Obra Dinn" through racial capitalism.
romchip.org/index.php/ro...

Creating a Feminist Archival Praxis to Reveal Histories of Women in the UK Advertising Industry — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership Through the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE), we are offering a fully funded PhD studentship with the University of East Anglia and the History of Advert...

Come research with us! AHRC/CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship at UEA & History of Advertising Trust ‘Creating a Feminist Archival Praxis to Reveal Histories of Women in the UK Advertising Industry’. Application deadline 17th Feb www.chase.ac.uk/cdas/creatin...