Exhibit Previews
Each exhibit in the Tent of Time has some curriculum related purpose. Full curriculum will be developed after the exhibits are finished. What follows on this page are previews of the exhibits.
Background
Our 3d print farm has been running since 2022. We've been using an iterative design process to work out the detailed design for each exhibit. Some of the exhibits have been printed several times, some are still just items on a check list.
As of the start of 2026, less than half of the major exhibits have reached the point where they can be printed for the first time. There is perhaps another year of work. Follow the blog at Paleo.In to track progress.
The exhibits listed below are organized into natural sets. This is a convenient way to organize them. When used in specific Paleo language curriculum, the order of presentation may be quite different.
Many of the exhibits are mentioned in scripture. Often they have extensive stories that are interpreted best by knowing the details of the exhibit itself. Finding those scripture references, and understanding details from scripture, is the discovery process that is behind the design process currently going on.
The photos used below are shop photos, taken soon after being fabricated in the print farm. Most of these photos have been posted to the Telegram group were progress for this work is posted. See the Paleo.In website front page for social media links.
Starter Exhibits
Exhibits in this set are considered introductory or starter exhibits. These would be the first exhibits introduced to new learners. These have various prominent places in scripture.
Staff
This exhibit contains the complete string of letters that make up the commandments. It introduces a paragraph of Paleo text broken down into 12 sentences.
The first primary purpose of all students of scripture is to be able to read these sentences for themselves. Teaching students how to read is the primary purpose of most of the other exhibits found in this entire set.
The staff is used and referenced extensively in scripture. Most famously it is used in the hands of Moses against the Egyptians.
This is the first exhibit because it can be found being used by people outside of the room where the other exhibits are found.
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Lamp
The lamp exhibit is the first of the major exhibits. It establishes the color schemes and sequences used across the Main Bones exhibits which will follow.
This is the second exhibit because the room where the exhibits are kept will be lighted by 1 or more of these lamps.
In history this would have been an oil lamp. It is often pictured by history as rendered in gold. Fabricators of this design may select certain parts to be rendered in gold colored plastic. The lamp itself does have a white and red color scheme as described by itself.
Note, from left to right, the background colors follow the rainbow, so Red, Orange Yellow, Green and Blue. The foreground colors follow white (so fire) then gold, silver, copper and bronze.
History also often renders this lamp with 7 arms instead of 5 as pictured here. The lamp is important to the audit pattern which only has 5 useful points, so the lamp as rendered here also only has 5 flames.
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Wall Hangings
The walls of the exhibit room are decorated with a series of decorative wall hangings. After the staff and lamp, these would be the next set of exhibits that that new students would naturally notice. They take up quite a bit of wall space.
Each wall hanging teaches some important set of lessons. Usually these are alphabet lessons, but the subjects are varied and touch on other topics, like the lost tribes, villains and layers of interpretation.
In ancient materials these would have been embroidered quilts. This would allow easy packing for transport. One of the exhibits is to be rendered in white. The others are done in subdued colors, selected at the pleasure of the fabricator.
The exhibit models as presented here are intended for fabrication on modern 3d printers. These generally require bolt hardware for fabrication. Besides cloth and plastic, these could also be rendered in carved wood. We are generally using brown and beige as the subdued colors. Again, this should be considered a fabricator's choice.
Scripts
This exhibit shows the archaeological evidence for each of the letters in the Paleo Alphabet. This was not needed in ancient times because the alphabet was simply known. This exhibit is needed for modern students who need to learn how the Paleo alphabet degenerated across history to become our modern phonetic alphabets. Paleo is simply a return to the ancient standard.
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Joseph's Robe
Jacob fabricated a robe of many pieces, or colors, and give it to Joseph. Linen or light colored wool would have been the ancient material. The letters would have been embroidered. The trim that divides the letters into triplets is also important.
In this case we are rendering it as a wall hanging. It is possible to render this as a piece of actual clothing. Such a rendering may create jealousy as it did in Joseph's brothers.
The robe itself is important for early learners who are attempting to master the alphabet. The letter pattern and distribution is one of the lessons of the robe. The colors teach vowel matches and help with learning pronunciation. The same colors are used on the lamp and are used to teach the audit pattern. All references to white robes in scripture are ultimately pointing at this robe.
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Jacob's Ladder
This exhibit is based on Joseph's Robe. It refactors each letter triplet on Joseph's robe and sequences those triplets into 22 sets of ladders. Each ladder has 10 rungs.
Jacob fabricated Joseph's robe. Jacob also had a vision of a ladder to the skies. So Jacob's name is assigned to this ladder.
This does become a ladder to the skies if all the smaller ladders are chained together. This is another early learner exhibit, used for teaching the dictionary meaning of the letters that form words.
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Lost Tribes
This exhibit provides the main keys needed to find the lost tribes that are descended from Jacob. This material springs from the Bible Tribes project which is itself an offspring of the Bible Time project.
This exhibit solves a riddle presented by Revelation 7. Each tribe seals a document on or near a prophetic date. The entire set of dates are each offset by 12,000 days from the earlier date.
Knowing the tribes is a fundamental lesson for understanding anything about how the text references modern nations and national alliances.
Once those nations are understood, their identities are then used for riddling out correct pronunciation of the various consonants in the alphabet. This compliments the script exhibit and provides the path to correct modern pronunciation of what is otherwise a lost language.
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Primary Cardinal Vowels
This exhibit explains how the human vocal track produces vowel sounds. Of the 12 or so possible vowels, 6 of them are considered "primary" vowels. These become the available 6 vowel sounds used in recovered Paleo.
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With some simple electronics buried in this exhibit, it could sound out these vowels.
Layers of Interpretation
Anyone learning to read scripture needs a framework for understanding how the text is composed. Our framework came in a prophetic dream around 25 years ago. This wall hanging exhibit shows the various conceptual layers in the text.
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Much of our manuscript recovery work is framed by this exhibit. It is conceptually similar to the ISO 7 layer model used in computer communications.
Villains
The text of the Bible is an edited version of inspired scripture. We know of the editors as the Villains. Their biographies are part of the inspired canon of scripture, so their names are eternally important.
There were 6 editors. Nearly all lists of 6 found across inspired scripture are veiled references to those 6 villains. This exhibit provides a quick reference that hangs on the wall which lists off those villains.
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Understanding these editors is very important for learning the difference between the Bible and scripture. Evangelistic work typically involves learning what edits someone may be caught in. This marks which editor and thus which false theology is causing trouble.
Story Grid
The inspired text of scripture is built around a gridded organization of the stories. This exhibit provides a wall sized illustration of that Story Grid. There is a related app linked off Paleo.In.
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Chests
There are a series of 4 decorative chests that provide a place to store exhibits when those exhibits are not setup and being used. These would have been the travel chests used when Moses' tent was being moved around.
These chests also become room decorations when the exhibits are being displayed. So the artwork on the front and tops of these chests is also available for teachers to use in the curriculum.
We found the designs for the decorative exteriors of these chests when we were studying the Megiddo Mosaic floor at the Museum of the Bible in early 2025. The archaeologists who worked on recovering that floor probably had no idea what they were looking at. That floor was around 1900 years old, but the designs may go back to the time of the patriarchs.
It was evident to us, when studying that mosaic, that the artwork on that floor was suggesting it originally belonged on boxes. That artwork was also suggesting story details that we already understood because we already understood the main exhibits.
We call these chests as in the expression "treasure chests." Trunks or some other similar word is an alternative term.
In history these would have been rendered in wood with various wood finishes at the choice of the fabricators. We are using 3d printed plastic to keep in the same family of materials as the other exhibits. After some iteration, are are now consistently using brown trim to harken back to the use of wood boxes in history.
That ancient tile floor had no specific coloring. The ancient dies used on that floor have been lost to history. The archaeologists obviously did not know the colors either. There are photos of them using black sharpie pens to color up those ancient tiles. (To their disgrace, I should add.)
We have selected coloring and certain design details for the sides and tops of these chests based on our understanding of exhibits, their color schemes and their exhibit related stories.
The chests are named with colors that follow the order of the rainbow. 4 of the chests are full square boxes. There are 2 other exhibits that are themselves built as boxes. So the 4 chests are augmented by 2 more large boxes found in the exhibits below.
When matched against rainbow colors, the 4 chests that follow here are matching Red, Orange, Yellow and Blue, skipping Green and Purple.
The Table exhibit, described below, fills in for the missing green chest. The Fig Tree exhibit, also below, fills in for a missing purple chest.
Red Chest
This chest is the first in the series of chests. The primary exhibit for this chest is the Lamp. There is room within the chest for other, smaller, exhibits like the ladder. This chest in history would also have carried quilts. Our use of rigid wall panels for hangings prevents the use of this chest for those exhibits.
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Orange Chest
The Orange Chest is used to store the Mount of Olives exhibit.
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Yellow Chest
The Yellow Chest is used to store the Vine exhibit.
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Blue Chest
The Blue Chest is used to store the River exhibit.
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Main Bones Exhibits
Exhibits is this section are used to display the various sets of 3d models that form the proof of the letter shapes for the 3d alphabet. Each of these exhibits provides some sort of display platform for the 3d models. These show off how a particular set works as a set.
Mount Of Olives Exhibit
The Mount of Olives carries the gold set of 3d models. These show the progression of the 3d shapes that go down from a star to the 2d vowels.
These are exhibited on a mountain, with the star above the top of the mountain, and the vowel shapes down around the edges. There are paths down the mountain that show off the connections between successive tiers of object.
The alphabet models that are shown off on this exhibit also assemble into the Silo and Well exhibits.
This is a large exhibit with quite a bit of surface detail.
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Only prototype work has been done for this exhibit.
Vine Exhibit
The Vine exhibit provides a stand for the silver set of 3d bones models. The exhibit shows which letters share the same vowel sound. Normally 4 letters share the same vowel, but not always.
The sequence down the vine is determined by a short Paleo language phrase "Who [is] Abraham." The basic stick figure pattern is seen on the Megiddo Mosaic floor.
These alphabet models, at a larger scale, assemble into the Sower and Reaper exhibits.
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Table Exhibit
The Table exhibit provides a case for the 25 3d models that define the meaning of each letter of the Paleo alphabet. This case provides the grids needed for learning the principles of how each letter is drawn.
This exhibit also provides the parts needed to teach the Qu-Map and the Audit pattern.
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River Exhibit
The River exhibit provides the stand for displaying the bronze set of 3d models. These models form a story around the life cycle of a plant. The flow of the water marks the flow of time. The plants themselves also map to the tribes so this exhibit also provides a row of staffs, 1 staff for each tribe.
The river of this exhibit begins at model of the Sea of Galilee and ends at the Dead Sea. It shows the sequence of the tribes along the river.
This will be a very large and detailed exhibit.
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Fig Tree Exhibit
The fig tree exhibit is a remodeling of the 3d parts from the Mount of Olives and the Vine. It is the central exhibit in the downstairs, or front, room of the exhibit space. It is the largest of the exhibits and is built with its own case as an anchoring stand. It functions as the purple chest.
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Tiles Exhibit
The tiles exhibit provides a set of 2d tiles that can be used to understand
the 3d objects presented in the other main bones exhibits.
Time Keeping
Exhibits in this section deal with time keeping, primarily the clock and calendar. There purpose in the curriculum is to teach how scripture marks time of day and calendar time. There is also a time related Crown Exhibit found in the Upper Room set of exhibits that expands on the concept of historical time.
Clocks
There are 2 different clocks. The first is a small 12 hour desk clock. The other clock is a classroom size master clock that uses a 24 hour motor.
These exhibits have matched web apps. See Paleo.In for links to those apps.
12 Hour Desk Clock Exhibit
This exhibit uses a 12 hour motor and Paleo letters to show "hours of day" instead of the normal "hours of the clock" as found on modern clocks.
It is small enough for students to have copies of their own. It can hang on a wall, or stand on a table.
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12 Hour Wall Clock Exhibit
This exhibit uses a 24 hour motor and Paleo letters to show "hours of the day and watches of the night." It is designed to track the sun as viewed from the northern hemisphere looking south.
This is larger than the desk clock and intended for permanent display along with the various other wall hanging exhibits.
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This clock is pending design work. See the 24 hour faces on the clock app linked off Paleo.In.
Perpetual Calendar
The annual calendar used to write scripture is not the same as used in the world today. This exhibit is mechanical perpetual calendar for use in the classroom. It must be reset monthly by hand.
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See the calendar app linked off Paleo.In for an example of the calendar face.
Large Model Exhibits
The 3d objects from each series form into large proof of inspiration models. These are models of everyday things that are created out of assembly of the individual 3d models that show up in each of the series. What follows here are those exhibits.
Silo
The silo is a model of a typical grain silo. It is assembled from the gold set of 3d models. The silo sits on the ground plain. To match the well it is typically placed on a stand.
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The cranking mechanism can be made to function. The 3d system models the bones of the silo. Roof and side panels are added for completion, forming a full exhibit.
Well
The well is a model of a typical hand-cranked bucket well, including the details of the windlass. This active function is just like the sifter on the silo. The well drops below the ground plain so this exhibit requires a stand for display in a typical room.
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The crank on the side of the windlass can be made to function. Rope must also be added for the bucket. A roof and stone walls for the tank are also added beyond the skeleton of the well.
Sower
The Sower is a model of a sower, kneeling on a chariot. It is formed out of the objects that make up the silver set of 3d items. This is typically displayed on a field.
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Ground details are added to the stand to show wheel ruts.
Reaper
The Reaper is a model of a reaper. Like the sower, the reaper is kneeling in a chariot.
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Ground details are also added to the stand for this exhibit.
Trees
Each of the trees that are found in the Bronze set of models, so the models that are found in the River Exhibit, are also modeled at the same scale as the silo, well, sower and reaper.
Together, all of these exhibits form something like a farm.
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This set of trees takes considerable space for display.
Upper Room Exhibits
These exhibits would normally be located in an upper room of a building or inner room of a tent.
These are not in the normal main classroom. The lessons of these exhibits are advanced, and make little sense to early learners. The crown is used for more than simple classroom learning.
Crown
The crown exhibit is the largest of the exhibits, intended to wrap an entire room. It is a mechanical representation of the main timeline of scripture. This is based on the materials found on BibleTime.com.
There is a fractal component of historical time, so the exhibit has macro level, historical, application, as well as applications that repeat in various ways across history.
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This exhibit waits on completion of the manuscript audit work so as to only include timed events that are inspired.
Star Field Ceiling
The star field exhibit shows up as a hanging exhibit, for easier travel use. It can also be rendered on an actual ceiling of an actual room.
This star field provides a map of the primary stars and constellations seen in the night skies. It is based on ancient star maps which provide ancient names for stars.
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Raw star map data has been download. Detailed designs have not been done. This exhibit may be illuminated with LEDs so it would glow with stars in the dark.
Eden Model
The Eden Model is an idealized model of one of the moons of Saturn. It is intended to teach the interior design of that moon. This is intended to show off the gravity systems, water cycle systems, lighting systems, propulsion systems as well as the various climate zones within that moon.
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Some prototype work for the interior map design has been done.