Living Worlds
The pyramid builders' town at Giza: mudbrick bakeries with smoke rising, workers in linen kilts, a boat unloading limestone, the unfinished pyramid behind.

Age · 2560–500 BCE

The first great works

Pyramids rise, roads cross empires.

Observed

Evidence

Places, dates and measured rates, from sources.

Inferred

Parameters

The rates and structures fitted to that evidence.

Simulated

Behaviour

Lives stepped month by month under those rates.

Generated

Outcome

Each life's story, told as a composite, never a real person.

Meanwhile

2 worlds, side by side.

Each keeps its own time. None is ranked above another.

The pyramid builders' town at Giza: mudbrick bakeries with smoke rising, workers in linen kilts, a boat unloading limestone, the unfinished pyramid behind. Giza, about 2560 BCEThe Builders' TownEvery crew eats before it works. A Royal Road station with fresh horses, and the half-built columns of Persepolis where workers of many nations collect rations. Persia, about 500 BCEThe Royal RoadEvery traveller is fed at the next station.
A double-hulled voyaging canoe with pandanus sails on the open Pacific at dusk.

Which world will you live in?

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