JasonColavito.com was launched in 2010 as the successor to Jason Colavito's critically-acclaimed fringe archaeology website Lost Civilizations Uncovered (2001-2010). JasonColavito.com presents the best of Lost Civilizations Uncovered while broadening the focus to encompass the full range of Jason Colavito's areas of research, exploring the connections between science, pseudoscience, and speculative fiction. These investigations, which have appeared on the History Channel, examine the way human beings create and employ the supernatural to alter and understand our reality and our world.
About the Site Design
The image at left depicts the Greek mythological hero Jason emerging from the belly of the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece as the goddess Athena looks on. The image, on a red-figure cup now in the Vatican, was the work of the Douris Painter (cup c. 480-470 BCE). It is one of the oldest known images of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, and the version of the story depicted is a variant recorded nowhere in ancient literature.
This image was chosen to represent JasonColavito.com because its dynamic scene provides an immediately identifiable visual identity across the component areas of the site that reflects the key themes in the author's work. The image represents ancient history and mythology in its subject matter and style. It also represents ancient mysteries in the unrecorded variant quest myth it depicts. Finally, the image also represents speculative fiction as an early example of dark fantasy. Together, these elements encapsulate the component areas of JasonColavito.com, while reinforcing the author's own identity through the shared name of the hero Jason.
This image was chosen to represent JasonColavito.com because its dynamic scene provides an immediately identifiable visual identity across the component areas of the site that reflects the key themes in the author's work. The image represents ancient history and mythology in its subject matter and style. It also represents ancient mysteries in the unrecorded variant quest myth it depicts. Finally, the image also represents speculative fiction as an early example of dark fantasy. Together, these elements encapsulate the component areas of JasonColavito.com, while reinforcing the author's own identity through the shared name of the hero Jason.
About the Typography
The homepage title, page headers, and button links are laid out in New Athena Unicode, a freeware font distributed by the American Philological Association.
The homepage subhead, back buttons, and secondary text are laid out in Audiowide, a font licensed under the SIL Open Font License from the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute.
The homepage subhead, back buttons, and secondary text are laid out in Audiowide, a font licensed under the SIL Open Font License from the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute.
