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Jason Colavito
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Jason Colavito writes JASON COLAVITO, a personal blog at jasoncolavito.com about history and culture. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jason Colavito's blog for posts on ancient history and myth, such as the Pompeii pineapple mosaic, claims about ancient Indian texts, and Younger Dryas impact ideas.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Author website of Jason Colavito, covering archaeology, mythology, extraterrestrials and the connections between science and the supernatural
What Hacker News says?
"And by, say, the fall of the Roman Empire, India had far more interesting philosophy ... But it turns out that Indian philosophy was heavily inspired by Greek philosophy" That sounds very interesting. Are there any sources that discuss this in more detail? All the results on google seem to suggest that if at all a correlation exists, that Indian philosophy might have inspired Greek Philosophy. http://www.jasoncolav…
Comment linking /blog/did-ancient-greece-borrow-its-philosophies-from-india
on “When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment”Submitted Review of "Age of Disclosure" as a story · 8 points
HN discussionHrm. This made me think of something. First hit gave Nuclear Event in Ancient India https://ancient-hebrew.org/ancientman/1054.html ? edit: But also https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-radioactive-skeleton-... Still, the few parts of the Mahabharata (which I've read(english translations of)) seem like Sci-Fi to me. And then there is https://ge315.org/eze/1/the-celestial-chariot/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me…
Comment linking /blog/the-radioactive-skeleton-of-mohenjo-daro-how-soviet-propaganda-spiraled-into-a-extreme-fringe-history-claim
on “Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018)”Submitted Jason Colavito (history, science, pseudoscience, science fiction, pop culture) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTFA seems to have copied text mostly from this (much better) blog post from 2012: https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-pineapple-of-pompeii Here's a larger image of the mosaic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/0_Mosaic... Also, I think it's just a pine cone.
Comment linking /blog/the-pineapple-of-pompeii
on “Mystery Pineapple in an Ancient Mosaic”Submitted How Ancient Astronaut Theorists Faked a Hindu Nuclear Explosion as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Newspaper Accounts of Giants as a story · 1 points
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