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Cracking The Code: Can AI Help Decode Ancient Languages?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (239+ words) It’s worth being precise about what AI did and didn’t do here. It didn’t come up with the idea, the engineer did. AI served as the research assistant, quickly testing a human hypothesis against thousands of characters, a job that…...
The Secret of the Fire Serpent: A Reverse Engineering Hypothesis
3+ week, 4+ day ago (125+ words) An invisible thread unites Puma Punku, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Aztec chronicles in the manipulation of natural stone. Microscopic, petrographic, and reverse-engineering analyses could reveal a lost science based on energetic control and the molecular breakdown of matter. Post-diluvian, post-Younger Dryas…...
Digging the foundation
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (92+ words) GettysburgTimes.com Chris Codori, owner of Codori Memorials, digs the foundation Wednesday for the monument that will be installed in Lincoln Cemetery next year. It will include the names of the 450 people buried in the cemetery. (Darryl Wheeler/Gettysburg Times)…...
In 44 minutes, AI decrypted a 373-year-old cipher of a Scottish poet
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (287+ words) inkorr.com In 44 minutes, AI decrypted a 373-year-old cipher of a Scottish poet Decoding the Cyphral Distich Record Vals AI announced that its Claude Fable 5.1 model successfully decrypted a 373-year-old Cyphral Distich record created by Scottish poet Thomas Urquhart. The…...
Cave carving or social media
2+ week, 5+ day ago (859+ words) Humanity spent millennia inventing language. Then we discovered the thumbs-up emoji. By LARRY D. CLIFTON Words. We’re lucky our species ever evolved, considering that our ancestors mostly relied on grunts, gestures and urgent facial expressions to communicate. They had it better…...
At Vallathol Vidyapeetham, researchers huddle to decipher ancient scripts
3+ week, 1+ day ago (191+ words) Vallathol Vidyapeetham is offering a Manuscriptology, Epigraphy and Palaeography (MEP) course where individuals aged 23 to 75 are learning to decipher ancient scripts and explore historical writing traditions. The MEP course covers a broad range of ancient Indian documentary forms, including palm…...
A UTC lecturer and his team went to Jamaica in search of shipwrecks. What they found is 300 years in the making
3+ week, 2+ day ago (930+ words) When University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) lecturer and underwater archeologist Andrew Van Slyke went to Port Royal, Jamaica, in search of centuries-old shipwrecks in March, it was far from his first time visiting the island country. However, it was…...
Ancient Origins of Typography: How Early Mark-Making Shapes Modern Communication
3+ week, 2+ day ago (423+ words) Kathmandu— Half a million years ago, Homo erectus carved zigzag patterns into mussel shells on Java. Around 100,000 years later, early Homo sapiens etched cross-hatched designs onto ochre in South Africa. These weren’t writing, but deliberate attempts to shape surfaces and…...
The Puzzle Edit: Archeology is all just one big puzzle to...
3+ week, 11+ min ago (157+ words) Sunday 23 August 2026 Observers Needed puzzle designer Blythe joined me and our first port of call was a scratch-and-sniff station built around something you’d never think to ask about a genomics lab: what does it smell like? It was a sensory…...
Ancient Egypt Has A Machining Problem.
4+ week, 1+ day ago (34+ words) You Can Explain The Tools. The Marks They Left Behind Are Another Story. The planet is littered with things that make you stop and wonder how somebody pulled …...