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an archive of the world's endings
Every end, told by the world
Choose a country. Every culture has asked how it ends — and answered.
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traditions drafted · more in research
The timeline of the end, from cuneiform to 2012 →
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PhD-grade essays
Humanized, cited, honest about what we don't know →
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the oracle
One myth, drawn from the dark. The archive does not repeat itself →
Newest essay
The Flood Tablet and the Invention of the End of the World
The oldest end-of-the-world story we have began as a noise complaint, and its survival is itself a remnant myth. Read the flagship essay →
On the timeline
- c. 7th c. BCEThe Flood Tablet is inscribed at Nineveh
- 1844The Great Disappointment
- 21 Dec 2012The year nothing happened