Historical Research
New evidence continually changes what we know, what we doubt, and what we need to ask next. These are living research subjects — they grow as the evidence does.
A demonstration record modelling an imaging study: higher-resolution computed tomography recovering additional inscription text naming planetary display functions on the device's front face.
Part of: The Antikythera MechanismA geared bronze device from a first-century BCE shipwreck that modelled the heavens — mechanical sophistication unmatched for well over a millennium afterwards.
Monumental carved enclosures raised by hunter-gatherers around 9600–8000 BCE — millennia before pottery, metallurgy or cities — upending assumptions about what pre-agricultural soc…
Around 1200 BCE the interconnected palace civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean failed within a few decades. Why remains one of history's great open questions.
Thousands of short inscriptions from the Bronze Age Indus civilisation that no one has convincingly read — the most tantalising undeciphered sign system of the ancient world.
Nearly a thousand manuscripts from around the turn of the era, found in caves near Qumran — the most important trove for understanding Second Temple Judaism and the textual history…
A demonstration record modelling an archive release: conservation of tablets from Ugarit's final archive adding administrative detail — grain requisitions, troop movements and unanswered appeals for naval help.
A demonstration record modelling a computational-linguistics study: sequence entropy and positional statistics across the full inscription corpus, compared against natural languages, proto-writing and non-linguistic code…
A demonstration record modelling an imaging study: higher-resolution computed tomography recovering additional inscription text naming planetary display functions on the device's front face.
A demonstration record modelling an ancient-DNA study: species and herd signatures from parchment fragments indicating that manuscripts were produced from distinct animal populations, some inconsistent with the Judaean d…
A demonstration record modelling a widely publicised claim: that pillar carvings encode a datable comet impact and constitute the world's oldest astronomical record.
A demonstration record modelling a preprint: chemical residue analysis of stone vessels consistent with large-volume preparation of grain-based foods, possibly fermented, in the enclosure areas.
A demonstration record modelling a historiographic synthesis: systematic comparison of destruction layers showing they are spread across decades, with several key sites showing abandonment rather than battle damage.
A demonstration record modelling a paleoclimate study: pollen, isotope and lake-sediment proxies indicating a multi-decade arid phase across the eastern Mediterranean beginning shortly before 1200 BCE.
Every discovery is tied to a named source and, wherever possible, the primary research output — the paper, excavation report or archive release itself, not the headline about it. Evidence quality is assessed on separate dimensions (peer review, primary-source proximity, corroboration, methodology, scholarly consensus, criticism, sensationalism risk) and summarised in plain language, from strong evidence to speculative. Preliminary work is labelled preliminary; retracted or superseded claims stay visible with their correction history. Where scholars disagree, we say so.
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