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Olympos: The Last Smoke of the Lycian Flame (part 1)
Dust of Time Entering the Labyrinth You’re walking a trail that smells like pine, salt, and something else — something like fire,…
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Nova Selinus: The Last Emperor of Simulation
Ravings on the Edge of Time Versions of the Unexisting He died in Selinus. The emperor. A man who held the East…
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Mylai: Ruins That Couldn’t Care Less
Dust of Ages Entering the Labyrinth They don’t scream. Don’t wait. Don’t ask. You stand before a slope where the wind scrapes…
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Shadow on the Stone: How Alexander Cut Through Pamphylia
Scars of History Flashpoint Dust swirls over the plain where horses tear the ground with their hooves, and the sun burns skin…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: Chronicles of Unhappened Grandeur
Ravings at the Edge of Time Versions of the Unexistent In a future that never came to be, Elaiussa Sebaste was never…
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Heracles, Who Tired of Eternity
Artifact of Inevitability A Glance Through Glass You approach the display, and he’s already there. A weary Heracles, carved from marble in…
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Bronze Lucius Verus: The Metal That Remembers the Emperor
Artifact of Inevitability Through the Glass You stand before him — motionless. And yet, it feels like he’s breathing. Like he’s about…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Veins Where Water Still Flows (part 4)
Dust of Ages Entry into the Circuit You’re driving along the D400 highway. Everything looks normal—pavement, signs, the shadows of trees. But…
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Ashes over Eurymedont: Sea Battle near Aspendos
Scars of History Ignition Point At the river’s mouth, where waves drown the screams of the dying, in 190 BCE the world…
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Elaiussa Sebaste: The Skeleton of an Empire Beneath Garden Plots (Part 1. Center)
Dust of Ages Entrance to the Labyrinth These aren’t ruins. They’re a hole in memory. You step off the dolmuş on the…
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Pompey: The Mask That Played Republic Too Long
Dead Men With Ideas Name in Stone The Romans called him Magnus, but the Greeks just smiled — they knew no bronze…
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Dust of Empires: Old Road From Rome to Nowhere
Call of the Void Vanishing Point You stand at the edge of a canyon, where the Roman road, like a scar on…
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Summer Solstice – Long Day When the Sun Freezes
Calendar Of Oblivion Gates of Time Today the sun stops. Not literally, of course, but in this moment—June 21, when shadows shrink…
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The Golden Stern Above Kydnos
Scars of History Point of Ignition Tarsus, 41 BCE. The river Kydnos carries purple sails, and the air trembles with the sound…
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