Chatbots tell people what they want to hear(hub.jhu.edu)

58 points by geox 2 years ago | 25 comments

Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system(lithub.com)

145 points by HR01 1 year ago | 156 comments

Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones(hakaimagazine.com)

9 points by stareatgoats 1 year ago | 1 comments

Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants(smithsonianmag.com)

107 points by bryanrasmussen 8 months ago | 32 comments

Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'(colorado.edu)

272 points by caf 2 years ago | 86 comments

Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas(hakaimagazine.com)

11 points by diodorus 2 years ago | 2 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey(livescience.com)

85 points by gmays 29 days ago | 10 comments

Live Science news article on archaeologists finding a fragment of the world's oldest known peace treaty, from around 1269 B.C., at the Hittite capital Hattusha in Turkey.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age(smithsonianmag.com)

139 points by Hooke 18 days ago | 55 comments

Smithsonian magazine article on how archaeologists reconstruct perishable Stone Age fiber technologies like rope, thread and twine from the traces they left.

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)

3 points by measurablefunc 25 days ago | 2 comments

A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved(newsingermany.com)

336 points by janpot 3 years ago | 164 comments

News article reporting that archaeologists in Germany found an exceptionally well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword.