Aevolio
AevolioHow the past actually worked.
Forty-five second films about the mechanisms behind history: how Roman concrete closes its own cracks, how a Mongol message crossed an empire, how a share in the Dutch East India Company changed hands. Each one is drawn in code, names its primary source on screen and gets a page here with the parts a short film has no room for.
Latest episodes
The first episodes are in production. Each one will get a page here with the fuller explanation, a timeline, what the short film left out and the primary sources, linked.
Twelve worlds
Every era has its own palette and drawing style. The questions stay the same: how did they build it, pay for it and keep it running?
- Romans
- Greeks
- Persian Empire
- Chinese history
- Middle Ages
- Vikings
- Mongols
- Plague
- Italian city states
- Inca and Aztec
- Dutch VOC
- Wild West
What every episode promises
Sourced on screen
The primary source appears in the film: the work, its date and where to read it. When historians disagree, the card says so.
Checked by a person
No script is recorded until its quotes, numbers and dates have been traced back to the sources.
Corrected in public
Mistakes are fixed within a week and logged with what was wrong and what is right.
Read how episodes are made or see the corrections log.