Jack Ghazi
Builds Vona — voice and video greeters for websites. Writes on the ancient world: Egypt, Babylon, Greece.
Builds Vona — voice and video greeters for websites. Writes on the ancient world: Egypt, Babylon, Greece.
Three essays
- Babylon
The Code of Hammurabi Was Not a Law Code
The stele in the Louvre is a royal monument and a scribal treatise of model verdicts; no Babylonian court record ever cites it. - Egypt
The Rosetta Stone Is a Tax Receipt
The key to Egypt was a priestly invoice in triplicate — and it was cracked by parsing its formats, not by romance. - Greece
Greek Myth Was Never a Religion
The Greeks believed in their gods and used their myths: religion was sacrifice, calendar and oath; the stories stayed free because no one made them doctrine.
All writing
Babylon
- Babylon
The Code of Hammurabi Was Not a Law Code
The stele in the Louvre is a royal monument and a scribal treatise of model verdicts; no Babylonian court record ever cites it. - Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar II: The Builder We Remember as a Destroyer
The destroyer of Jerusalem and the mad king are biblical constructions; in his own bricks and inscriptions Nebuchadnezzar is a builder and a servant of Marduk. - Babylon
The Babylonians Invented Prediction, Not the Greeks
Centuries of nightly records, arithmetic tables and no cosmology at all: Babylon built a predictive science, and Hipparchus and Ptolemy ran on its numbers.
Egypt
- Egypt
Ma'at: Egypt's Real Constitution
Egypt never needed a law code, because ma'at already bound the king, the vizier, the scribe and the dead to the same unwritten obligation. - Egypt
Akhenaten Was Not the First Monotheist
Atenism was a royal solar cult with the king and Nefertiti as its only priests; the real revolution was erasing Amun and breaking the temple economy. - Egypt
The Book of the Dead Is a User Manual
The Egyptian utterances for going forth by day are not scripture but documentation: templated, tiered, versioned procedures with a fallback for every failure. - Egypt
The Rosetta Stone Is a Tax Receipt
The key to Egypt was a priestly invoice in triplicate — and it was cracked by parsing its formats, not by romance.
Greece
- Greece
Greek Myth Was Never a Religion
The Greeks believed in their gods and used their myths: religion was sacrifice, calendar and oath; the stories stayed free because no one made them doctrine. - Greece
Prometheus and the Price of Every Tool
The Greek story of technology is not theft-and-liberation but exchange: every technē arrives with a bill, and the judgment to pay it is handed out separately. - Greece
Hesiod vs. Homer: Two Greeces, One Alphabet
The earliest Greek poems describe two incompatible worlds; the farmer's is the honest one, and both survive because of the same new letters. - Greece
Delphi Was an Information Network
The oracle's power came less from prophecy than from position: the one node every Greek city consulted, whose ambiguous answers pushed risk back onto the asker.
( no photographs here — the work speaks )
About, briefly
I build Vona, AI voice and video greeters that answer visitors on websites, from Palm Beach, Florida. I read the people who first tried to make the future answer — Babylonian astronomers, Egyptian scribes, Greek oracles — and I write down what the evidence actually says. Each essay takes one thing everyone knows about the ancient world and checks it against the bricks, the papyri and the tablets.
( no photographs here — the work speaks )
About Jack Ghazi →