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Absolute History stitches several films into one chase after an older secret. First comes Thoth, the Egyptian god tied to the ibis, and a book of hidden wisdom. After Alexander, Greek writers fold him into Hermes. The older wording drops away, a Greek teaching remains, and Renaissance readers meet a human who must make beauty as a partner with God. The Rosetta Stone opens those scripts, and many so called spells look practical. The program then jumps to Crete. Evans buys signs, digs for Minos, and rebuilds a labyrinthine palace in his mind. Read tablets do show an early complex script. At Troy, a fortune and a brutal trench produce gold and fame, then a burned layer and a larger sixth city, while experts refuse the digger’s diary. The hoard later sits in Moscow as war booty. Last, the Copper Scroll may list temple stores. John Allegro hunts the hiding places and comes home with almost no gold. The through line is how a later century invents the past it came to recover.
Key points
- Thoth is introduced as an Egyptian wisdom god, and his book as a store of hidden knowledge.
- Greek rule after Alexander blends him with Hermes until the older text fades and a Greek corpus remains.
- Renaissance readers take up a human duty to create beauty with God, and later lodges and tarot circles keep the Egyptian aura.
- The Rosetta Stone is what lets scholars read the scripts, which often look more practical than miraculous.
- Evans hunts an early script on Crete, digs for the palace of Minos, and imagines a labyrinth the myths had already named.
- The Troy dig is presented as fame, gold, a burned layer, a larger sixth city, and a diary experts distrust, with the hoard later in Moscow.
- The Copper Scroll is a brittle metal list that John Allegro chased, with little treasure recovered.
Short quotes
role he is a cocreator with God and he must create objects of beauty just as God has created objects
Absolute History, Book of Thoth and later ancient hunts
In the Hermetic turn, a person must make beautiful things because God has done so. Watch at 18:02
entirely thanks to the Rosetta Stone Scholars are now able little by little to work their way through thousands of
Absolute History, Book of Thoth and later ancient hunts
Reading the old scripts, the film says, became possible after the bilingual stone was known. Watch at 42:14
advanced writing on the clay tablets was finally translated it was a sophisticated writing system with 187
Absolute History, Book of Thoth and later ancient hunts
Once those clay tablets could be read, the program calls the script a complex system. Watch at 1:32:28
mound sure enough their broader excavation soon produced results Troy 6 was a much bigger city
Absolute History, Book of Thoth and later ancient hunts
A wider dig, the narration says, showed that the sixth city at Troy was far larger. Watch at 2:16:13
Expeditions had not been a total failure they found very little in the way of actual treasure they found
Absolute History, Book of Thoth and later ancient hunts
The scroll hunts, as told here, brought back almost no gold. Watch at 3:04:01
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